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Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, LinkedIn

Six degrees of separation never had it so good. At LinkedIn, Hoffman proved that the “I know someone who knows someone” networking tenet could operate on a worldwide scale. He’s also been a longtime investor, as a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners, where he leads its Discovery Fund and as an angel investor, with stakes in in Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. He serves on the boards of Airbnb, Edmodo, Mozilla (Firefox), Shopkick, Swipely and Zynga and has co-led investments in Coupons.com, Groupon, and Viki. He was also on the founding board at PayPal.

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TrialPay Bulks Up Its Executive Team, Opens Office in Berlin

in Commerce on May 24 at 9:00 am PT

TrialPay plans to announce today that it is opening a European office in Berlin and adding three new executives to its management team. Managing Director of Europe Rob Schneider, formerly of Zanox, will head up the new office, while Jim Gerber, formerly of Google, will join the company’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., where he will be SVP of sales and partnerships. Lastly, Chris Davis, former SVP of Gaia Interactive, will become VP of Brand Sales. TrialPay helps online companies boost revenues by placing offers at the point of checkout.

The Five-Mile Rule

To simplify the search [for the next great companies], I suggest you look within a five-mile radius of Stanford.

– Stanford graduate Peter Thiel, in conversation with Reid Hoffman

Gap, H&M, Sephora and Others Unwrap New Social Gifting Service in the U.S.

in Commerce on April 29 at 9:01 pm PT

More than 25 major retailers, including the Gap, H&M, Sephora, Brooklyn Industries and others, are working with a small Swedish company named Wrapp to roll-out a social gifting service in the U.S.
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More D10 Speakers: Ellison, Meeker, Myhrvold, Along With Pixar and Visa!

in D10 on April 9 at 2:49 pm PT

Speakers? We got your D10 speakers.
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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann’s Lesson for Start-Ups: Go Your Own Way

in Social on March 13 at 11:42 am PT

Telling people how to create and run their own Internet start-up is a booming mini-industry. But here’s Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann’s advice: “Don’t take too much advice.”
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)

in News on March 12 at 1:15 pm PT

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat

in D10 on March 9 at 10:40 am PT

Speakers? We got your speakers right here.
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So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.
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TED Tech Preview: Robots, Crowdsourcing and Bill Nye

in News on February 27 at 7:00 am PT

The T in TED stands for technology, and this year’s speaker program is stacked with techies talking about robots, energy, collaboration and, of course, The Future.
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Facebook (Eye)PO: Early Investor Reid Hoffman on Mission Vs. Payday

in Social on February 15 at 2:55 pm PT

The Start-Up Whisperer knows all!
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Reid Hoffman’s New Business Book Tells Everyone to Act Like Entrepreneurs

in News, February 14, 2012 at 2:32 pm PT

Who’s Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?

in Social, February 9, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Visa Places Bet on New Approach to Payments With Rare Investment in TrialPay

in Commerce, January 31, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Greylock’s Reid Hoffman Invests in Swedish Social Gifting Company

in Commerce, January 18, 2012 at 4:31 am PT

Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

in Media, December 28, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

More Internet Heavy Hitters Speak Out in SOPA Saga

Viral Video: Rat Fingers, TouchFire and Sphero Demos

in News, December 15, 2011 at 1:09 am PT

Reid Hoffman and Matt Cohler Team Up to Give Edmodo $15M

in Social, December 8, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Three Months After Bartz’s Firing, It’s Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

in Media, December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT

Marc Andreessen vs. Reid Hoffman in Yahoo Savior Face-Off? Not Yet. (But Delicious to Imagine.)

in News, December 1, 2011 at 2:23 am PT

Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

in News, November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT

Andrew Keen’s Next Book Will Attack the Social Web

in Social, November 15, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Second Life Founder Tries Bringing Aspects of the Virtual World to Real Life

in Commerce, November 1, 2011 at 5:02 am PT

Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

in Commerce, October 3, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb’s Recent $112M Funding for Founder Control and Cash-Out

in News, October 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT