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Reid Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor, and has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Hoffman joined Greylock Partners in 2009, where he focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as chief executive officer. Before LinkedIn, he served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member.
Hoffman serves on the boards of several private companies, including Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Nauto, Xapo, and a few early-stage companies that are still in stealth. In addition, he serves on several not-for-profit boards, including Endeavor and Kiva.org.
Hoffman earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University.
Hoffman joined the Microsoft board as an independent director in March 2017.
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Founded by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Redmond Washington, Microsoft began its operations as a computer software company. They quickly became a household name within the computer operating system market when it was founded in 1975. With their successful IPO a few years later, they went on to acquire several large operations such as LinkedIn and Skype giving them total market dominance. With the shift to a devices and services strategy and under new leadership, Microsoft went on to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. In 2019, they made history as the third US public company to reach 1 trillion market cap, and most recently, they have been valued at over 2 trillion. Today, Microsoft generates revenue by developing, licensing, and supporting a wide range of software products and services, by designing and selling hardware, and by delivering relevant online advertising to a global customer audience. In addition to selling individual products and services, they offer suites of products and services such as consulting to computer system integrators and developers. However, they are mostly known for Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. More specifically, their products include operating systems for personal computers, servers, phones, and other intelligent devices; server applications for distributed computing environments; productivity applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; and online advertising. They also design and sell hardware including the Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment console, Kinect for Xbox 360, Xbox 360 accessories, and Microsoft PC hardware products