In 2020, Greylock created an ongoing partnership and investment in Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) to get more Black, Latinx and Indigenous people into tech startups. For example, he’s the founding donor and long-time board member at an organization that seeks to eliminate the opportunity gap and open broader pathways to higher-paying jobs and careers for millions of skilled Americans without bachelor’s degrees.
REID HOFFMAN SERIES
He is the host of the original podcast series Masters of Scale.Īs a philanthropist, Hoffman strives to help build and strengthen networks and platforms that broaden individual access to opportunity. He is the co-author of four bestselling books: including The Start-Up of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling and Masters of Scale.
He also served as executive vice president and founding board member at PayPal, and he is currently a partner at Greylock, a leading venture capital firm.
REID HOFFMAN PROFESSIONAL
In 2003, Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network that today has more than 700 million members. It was created and endowed by Vanderbilt Law School graduate Ed Nichols and his wife, Janice, in honor of Edward Carmack and Lucile Hamby Nichols. The Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal is one of the university’s highest honors and is awarded to individuals who define the 21st century and exemplify the best qualities of the human spirit. We are honored to present him with the Vanderbilt Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal and look forward to his remarks at Graduates Day this year.” “He now brings that pioneering vision and remarkable capacity to make an impact to the realm of global philanthropy. “Reid Hoffman has been a relentless innovator throughout his career, helping usher in a digital future that has fundamentally changed how the world lives and works,” said Chancellor Daniel Diermeier. All Rights Reserved.Reid Hoffman, an accomplished entrepreneur, executive, investor and philanthropist who has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, will receive Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal when he delivers the Graduates Day address to the Class of 2022 on May 12. He also co-founded the professional networking site LinkedIn, which has over 100 million users and a market cap of $8 billion thanks to its recent red-hot IPO.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
One of his earliest strikes was PayPal, where he served on the executive team and cashed out millions when it was bought by eBay in 2002. The 44-year-old venture capitalist, known as "the most connected person in Silicon Valley," has invested in some 114 tech startups since 1995, including juggernauts like Facebook, Flickr, Groupon and Zynga, both on his own and as a partner in the venture firm Greylock Partners. Reid Hoffman founded his first social site, called SocialNet, before Mark Zuckerberg had even started high school and has been in the vanguard of the social-media movement ever since.
ILLUSTRATION: Photograph by Brigitte Sire THE CONNECTOR | Hoffman (pictured in his Silicon Valley office) is a newly minted billionaire, courtesy of his LinkedIn IPO.
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