The reason the social-networking phenomenon is something that I invested in early and massively – I led the Series A financing for Friendster; I founded a company called Socialnet in 1997; I founded LinkedIn; and I was part of the first round of financing in Facebook – it sounds trivial, but people matter.
Reid Hoffman Quotes
Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.
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| Birth: | 5th August, 1967 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor |
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Reid Garrett Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with a BS in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science. He went on to earn an M.A. in philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford University in 1993.
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