Life is a team sport, not an individual sport, in terms of how get through it,” said Hoffman.įor those looking to become entrepreneurs, Hoffman stressed the importance of interrogating your own ideas. “Your real identities and your real relationships help you navigate the network. As the internet became part of our lives, Hoffman felt that the people and relationships in our lives needed to be brought to the internet. He believed that the internet would redefine physical space. In 2003, Hoffman cofounded LinkedIn, which would go on to become the world’s largest professional networking platform. Still in its beginning, Hoffman worked with PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel to refine the company’s vision. Though the platform ultimately didn’t succeed, he learned important lessons on entrepreneurship: “Be contrarian, be right, and be a little early.”įrom there, Hoffman went on to serve as the execute vice president of PayPal, the online payment and money transfer company. Hoffman founded his first entrepreneurial venture in 1997 with SocialNet, a networking platform.
For me, I’ve always been much more of a humanist.” When asked what drew him to social networks, Hoffman said, “Some people who go into entrepreneurship tend to be technologists.
In a discussion with University of Chicago Booth School of Business Dean Madhav Rajan, Hoffman spoke about his career as an entrepreneur and now as a partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation began its Distinguished Entrepreneur Speaker Series with Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn.
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