Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn co-founder, investor and AI author
Co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, early investor in OpenAI and co-founder of Inflection AI. He writes and podcasts about AI as an amplifier of human capability.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues AI should be framed as "superagency" — amplifying individual capability — rather than as replacement, and calls himself a "techno-humanist".
- Rejects both AI doomerism and unqualified accelerationism, advocating iterative deployment with guardrails.
- Funds and argues for AI in healthcare and drug discovery as the highest-value near-term application.
Accomplishments
- Co-founded LinkedIn (2003, acquired by Microsoft 2016); early executive at PayPal.
- Partner at Greylock; early investor in OpenAI and a former OpenAI board member.
- Co-founded Inflection AI (2022) and Manas AI (2025); hosts the Possible podcast and Masters of Scale.
Papers & key writings
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Jobs
What they've said in public about careers, hiring and work. Each point links to its source.
- Career advice
Co-wrote The Start-up of You, which argues you should run your career like a start-up: keep adapting, build a network, and take smart risks.
The Start-up of You, 2012
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