The LinkedIn Leap: How Reid Hoffman Defied the Downturn
Reid Hoffman never lost faith in the consumer internet. After PayPal’s sale to eBay in 2002, while other founders and investors looked to cleantech and played it safe, Hoffman remained focused. He delayed a year-long global trip, sensing that the post-dot-com bust was an opportunity, not an ending. That belief led to LinkedIn, which he co-founded in 2003. Today, Hoffman is best known as the Co-Founder of LinkedIn and Inflection AI, and as a partner at Greylock…