The founding CEO of Internet-based professional network service LinkedIn and now its Chairman and President, Hoffman has been called the 'most connected man in Silicon Valley.' He has personally mentored many of the Web 2.0 CEOs and has given valuable advice to many Silicon Valley VCs, as well as to the United States military. Credited with inventing the term, 'Second Generation Web Entrepreneurs,' he is director of such social network enterprises as Mozilla, Vendio, Six Apart, Kiva.org, Grassroots Enterprises, and Tagged. He is also an investor in Facebook, IronPort, Flickr, Digg, Technorati, Dopplr, Ping.fm, Nanosolar, Care.com, Knewton, Kongregate, and several other firms. As Executive Vice President of PayPal, Reid was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master's degree in philosophy and a Marshall scholarship.
- Social technologies are changing companies from the outside in and from the bottom up. What is the best way for organizations to respond?
- With the line between public and private information blurring, what are the top criteria you use to mark the boundary in your own online world?
- As mobile devices track location with accuracy, what will 'local' mobile applications look like 5 years from now?
- What kinds of products are being created from the explosion of personal information?
