YouTube Reporter am DLD 2008: Reid Hoffman

Interview mit dem Chairman und President von LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, während des DLDs in

München.

Reid was LinkedIn's founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as

Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9

million members and profitability; Linkedin now has over 17 million members worldwide.

Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge

of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international,

government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman

was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit,

Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo.

Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software

Corporation and Apple.

Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and

Mozilla Corporation (Firefox).

Reid has also invested in a wide range of Web 2.0 companies, including Facebook, Digg, and

Wikia.

Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and

from Oxford University with a Master's degree in philosophy.

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