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Reid Hoffman was born in Palo Alto, California, on August 5, 1967 to William Parker Hoffman and Deanna.
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His mom is Deanna Ruth Rutter and father is William Parker Hoffman. His great-great-great-grandfather was Theophilus Adam Wylie and he was a Christian Presbyterian Minister. He has been married to Michelle Yee since 2004 and decided to not have any children.
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He went to high school at The Putney School, there he farmed maple syrup, drove oxen, and studied epistemology.
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Hoffman called himself an avid tabletop roleplaying gamer when he was younger. HIs first paying job was an editor at a game company called Chaosium. His name was featured on the box of Chaosium RuneQuest role-playing game release. He won both a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award, with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science.
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Reid Hoffman went to college at Stanford University and graduated in 1990 and earned a scholarship and an award. Later on he earned his M.St. in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford in 1993.
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His first paying job was when he was 12 and was an editor near his home, in Oakland. His plan after graduating from Stanford was to become a professor and public intellectual. While at SocialNet, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors during the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service. In January 2000, he left SocialNet and joined PayPal full-time as the company's COO.
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Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in December 2002 with two former colleagues from SocialNet (including Allen Blue), a former college classmate and a former colleague from his time at Fujitsu. It launched on May 5, 2003, as one of the first business-oriented online social networks. In March 2022, it was announced that Hoffman was co-founding a new startup, Inflection AI. After the PayPal sale to eBay, Hoffman became one of Silicon Valley's most prolific and successful angel investors.
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He is a hardworking person who was able to accomplish great things. A storyteller who wrote books about his job. Smart because he won a Marshalls Scholarship and has humanity because he has been awarded with 13 awards so far since 2010. He is a creative person because of everything he has created so far.