Reid Hoffman

Connecting all professional into a global network

Reid Garrett Hoffman is one of the new faces of the internet industry. He embodies all that is admirable in the tales of success shared by many of the owners and founders of the new digital empires. Reid is the cofounder of LinkendIn the biggest professional social network, designed and oriented towards career building, job applications and professional education.

With more than 414.000.000 registered members worldwide, LinkendIn has become the international reference when you search for a professional in any field. It is currently the biggest CV compilation in the history of humanity. The data that LinkendIn holds it’s valued in more than 4.7 billion dollars, making Reid Hoffman one of the richest men alive. His personal fortune it’s calculated around the billion dollar mark, granting him the position number 341 on the Forbes Richest People List.

But far from his undeniable economic success, Hoffman is an example of ingenuity and efficient management, for being able to monetize one of the newest and more complex fields of the internet: the social networking and the internet online payment systems.
Hoffman has dealt with almost all the intricacies of the new digital business world: All aspects of consumer internet and software, product development, innovation, business strategy, finance, general management, operations, business operations, business development, talent management, and marketing are some of the fields that this remarkable men has developed in order to transform LinkedIn from a mere idea, into a huge and profitable corporation.

But LinkedIn wasn’t Hoffman first digital project, before he worked on seed-stage companies like paypal, facebook, zynga, last.fm and flickr. His management is an example of internet entrepreneurship, with a heavy focus on monetization policies; data secure environments and practical usage of public data to generate business opportunities.