About the Authors
REID HOFFMAN is Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Corporation and a partner at Greylock Partners. In
2003 he cofounded LinkedIn, the world’s largest
professional networking service, in his living room
in Mountain View, California. Today, LinkedIn has
more than three hundred million members in two
hundred countries and territories around the world.
In 2009 Reid joined Greylock Partners, a leading Sili-
con Valley venture capital fi rm. His investments in-
clude Airbnb, Facebook, Flickr, and Zynga. He serves
on a number of for- profi t a n d n o t - f o r - p r o fi t boards,
including Kiva.org and Endeavor.
Reid earned a master’s degree in philosophy from
Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree, with dis-
tinction, ...