Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in 2003 and sold it to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016 — creating the professional network used by over 1 billion people globally. Born in Stanford, California in 1967 and educated at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, Hoffman was an early executive at PayPal and a founding investor in Facebook before launching LinkedIn. His theory of "blitzscaling" — prioritizing speed over efficiency when capturing a winner-take-most market — became one of the most influential frameworks in startup strategy. As a partner at Greylock Partners, he has been an early backer of Airbnb, Convoy, and Aurora.
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