Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder, LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI. Founding Team, PayPal. Author of Superagency. Podcaster of Possible and Masters of Scale.

📍 Mountain View, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Co-founder, Board Member
Mar 2022
We are a small, friendly, and multi-disciplinary AI studio. Our first product was Pi and we are working in a deeply multidisciplinary style to create a brand new class of digital experiences for enterprises. This is an era of exponential change. Our name Inflection embraces this moment of transformation, while our status as a public benefit corporation provides us with the legal mandate to prioritize the well-being and happiness of our users and wider stakeholders above all else.
Board Member
Jan 2019
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Board Member
Mar 2018
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Board Member
Jan 2018
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora Horizon and Aurora Connect, its driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora is working with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, U.S. Xpress, Werner, Covenant, Schneider, and Ryder. For Aurora’s latest news, visit aurora.tech and @aurora_inno on Twitter.
Board Member
Sep 2017
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors. Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2015, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. EF’s portfolio is now collectively valued at over $16B, and includes companies such as Aztec, Cleo, Magdrive, Neptune, Omnea, Opply, PolyAI, Tractable, and many more. EF is backed by some of the worlds leading founders and investors, including Founders Fund, Greylock, John Collison (founder – Stripe), Patrick Collison (founder – Stripe), Reid Hoffman (founder – LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (former CEO - Google), Demis Hassabis (founder – Google DeepMind ), Taavet Hinrikus (founder – Wise), Matt Mullenweg (founder – WordPress), Charlie Songhurst (Board member – Meta), Christa Davies (Board member – Stripe), Lachy Groom (founder – Physical Intelligence), Aidan Gomez (founder – Cohere), Mati Staniszewski (founder – ElevenLabs), Danny Rimer (Partner - Index Ventures), Matt Cohler (former General Partner - Benchmark). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t. For more information about Entrepreneurs First, visit www.joinef.com Were hiring! Join our global team and experience firsthand the workings of a globally unique talent investor working with cutting edge entrepreneurs on world changing technologies: https://www.joinef.com/about/careers
Board Member
Aug 2017
Nauto is the leader in AI-powered safety and operations excellence for commercial fleets. Nauto simplifies day-to-day operations by consolidating driver and fleet safety, risk, and core telematics in a driver-friendly platform. Nautos real-time safety solution with multi-risk fusion, built upon more than 3 billion AI-processed driving miles, delivers superior outcomes, and provides pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist detection and alerting. With Nauto, fleets are able to foster a culture of performance excellence as demonstrated by reduced collisions, costs, risk, and driver training and churn. Nauto is trusted by 800 fleets worldwide and customers across multiple industry verticals have seen up to 80% collision reduction.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
Board Member
Sep 2016
Gixo offers highly motivational, professional coaches teaching live classes to people of all fitness levels in all locations, making exercise more accessible in people’s busy lives. Gixo launches with more than 180 live classes per week — ranging in length from 15 to 40 minutes — so we can offer a class for every schedule and every fitness level. Try it now: https://www.gixo.com/pass
Board Member
Jan 2016
The Convoy technology has been relaunched by Flexport as the Convoy Platform. Check out the new page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/convoy-platform/
Board Member
Nov 2014
Blockstream’s mission is to create the financial infrastructure of the future. We build crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin, the most robust and secure blockchain. Applying cutting-edge cryptography and security engineering, we’re building the products and networks that make financial markets more efficient by reducing reliance on trust. With a long term outlook on delivering robust and scalable solutions, we invest heavily in research and development to strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem and protocol. Peer-to-peer, open network finance holds the promise to change the world for the benefit of all. Blockstream is proud to be making this a reality.
Board Member
Oct 2014
Coda started in 2014 with a simple observation: In a world full of pre-built tools and applications, why do documents and spreadsheets seem to run the world? The founding Coda team crossed paths at Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, where they saw their teams stretch the limits of what spreadsheets and documents can do. Then in 2014, they banded together to build the doc they always wanted. One that erased the boundaries between words and data. And where everyone could work together, in their own way, off the same data. Coda. Its a new day for docs. Learn more at https://coda.io.
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Xapo is your safest way to send, receive, store and spend bitcoins and traditional currencies globally. Launched in 2014 by Wences Casares (CEO), Xapo has made an unparalleled investment in security infrastructure, assembled a renowned advisory board, and raised $40M from top venture capital firms in Silicon Valley & the world. Xapo has a global, remote workforce in over thirty countries. We hire the best – and in exchange we offer autonomy, flexibility, meaningful work, a collaborative team environment, and top tier compensation, regardless of your location.
Board Observer
Jul 2014
Xapo Bank is the first Bitcoin-enabled bank in the world to fully integrate traditional finance with crypto. Our members can benefit from the safety of a US Dollar bank account and the flexibility of blockchain payments, all in one powerful app. They can secure and grow their wealth in their Xapo Bank account with 4.1% annual interest on their USD deposits and 1% on their Bitcoin holdings, both paid out daily*. On top of that, they can enjoy seamless, fast, and low-cost transactions through international payment networks and blockchain rails. Our mission is to provide our members with the best crypto-native banking experience that is secure, accessible and flexible. Because we believe that financial security is a right, not a privilege, and should be within reach of every individual. Genuine Xapo Bank job openings will always be posted on our Careers page (www.xapo.com/careers). Although we work with third-party recruiters, invitations to interview for a role at Xapo Bank and any eventual job offers will only ever be communicated using a @xapo.com email address. If you are unsure, please reach out to us via email at hr@xapo.com. *Interest rates may vary and can be paid in any supported currency.
Board Member
Jan 2012
Kaching Cashback for Banks! Key features of Kaching Cashback include: 1. Enhanced Engagement: Our cashback solutions are designed to captivate and engage customers by offering attractive incentives and rewards. By incorporating our platform into banking services, we create a seamless and interactive experience that keeps customers coming back for more. 2. Customer experience: Our seamless cashback solution offers customers the benefit of effortless earning and redemption of rewards directly within their existing digital banking experience, eliminating the need for separate platforms or complex procedures. This enhances the customer experience by providing convenience, instant gratification, and personalized rewards, fostering a sense of value, satisfaction, and loyalty. 3. Personalization: Our advanced algorithms analyze customer behavior and preferences, enabling banks to offer tailor-made rewards and cashback incentives that resonate with individual customers. 4. Loyalty and Retention: By rewarding customers for their engagement, spending, and loyalty, banks can nurture long-lasting relationships and foster brand advocacy, resulting in increased customer retention and revenue growth.
Board Member
Dec 2011
Edmodo is a blended learning and distance learning platform for schools and districts, educators, and learners, providing flexible tools for classroom instruction, professional collaboration, communication, and community building—all in one platform.
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2025
Visiting Senior Fellow
Feb 2025
Were a world-leading university, unique in our dedication to the social sciences.
Co-Founder, Board Chair
Jan 2025
2022
Co-founder, Board Member
Mar 2022
We are a small, friendly, and multi-disciplinary AI studio. Our first product was Pi and we are working in a deeply multidisciplinary style to create a brand new class of digital experiences for enterprises. This is an era of exponential change. Our name Inflection embraces this moment of transformation, while our status as a public benefit corporation provides us with the legal mandate to prioritize the well-being and happiness of our users and wider stakeholders above all else.
2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
Joby is a California-based company building quiet, all-electric aircraft to connect people like never before. Quiet as a conversation and with the ability to take off and land vertically, the Joby aircraft will change the way we move while reducing the acoustic and climate footprint of flight.
2019
Board Member
Jan 2019
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