Reid Hoffman symbolizes a bigger debate over whether Silicon Valley disruption has any place in our politics. By Theodore Schleifer @teddyschleifer Sep 23, 2020, 11:30am EDT Share this story
Reid Hoffman has a lot to apologize for, but today he’s specifically saying that he’s sorry for funding a political experiment gone horribly awry.
Billionaire Reid Hoffman apologised on Wednesday for funding a group linked to a “highly disturbing” effort that spread disinformation during last year’s Alabama special election for US …
Date. 26th December 2018. Shortly after the 2016 US presidential election, LinkedIn founder and billionaire Reid Hoffman made a series of multi-million-dollar donations to dozens of left-leaning groups. Among them was American Engagement Technologies, in which Hoffman invested $750,000. In 2018, Hoffman wound up apologising for that donation …
Backed with $35 million — half from Silicon Valley celebrity billionaire Reid Hoffman — Alloy was pictured as the left’s belated big money answer to the right’s supremacy in the world of …
A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation. Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it …
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is passionately anti-Trump. Economics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with Hoffman to discuss why he feels so strongly about speaking out against Trump, why he …
A stunning exchange between the trial judge and Trump’s lawyer this week belied a larger issue in the case: Whether the funding of Ms Carroll’s legal expenses by a private nonprofit primarily …
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has burst onto the leaderboard of political donations in the age of Trump, cementing his status as a powerbroker in Silicon Valley politics.. But over the last few …
Reid Hoffman is discovering the downsides of becoming more politically active. Today the LinkedIn co-founder apologized for his role in supporting a group that was recently alleged to have engaged in deceptive online campaign tactics. A recent article in the New York Times said a strategy group called New Knowledge last year set up Facebook pages and Twitter accounts where people posed as
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Hoffman‘s a venture capitalist, at Greylock Partners, and an entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn, selling it last year for $26 billion. (His net worth is estimated to be north of $3 billion …
October 5, 2015. Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, has a premise about how the economic world will work from now on. Illustration by Stanley Chow. Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the …
Apr 26, 2024, 8:49 AM PDT. Reid AI (left) and the real Reid Hoffman (right) had a Q&A. Reid Hoffman/YouTube. Reid Hoffman sat down for an interview with a deepfake of himself. The LinkedIn …
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman invested in a political group that engaged in fake news tactics in the Alabama Senate race in 2017. Credit: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIRED25
Hoffman has been a Democratic donor for a while, having donated $1 million to President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012, but his hatred for Trump has led him to take a much more …
The political team for Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, asked a super PAC supporting Nikki Haley if it would take money from the billionaire, given that he is a Democrat who supports …
Investing in a Slowing Economy. 9/25/2023 8:00AM. David Bailin of Citi Global Wealth and Saira Malik of Nuveen debate the probability of a recession and discuss where they’re finding …
Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author.Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is also Chairman of venture capital firm Village Global and a co-founder of Inflection AI.
Reid Hoffman: There’s differential power among people. Some people are in positions of strong political power and other people aren’t. Some people are wealthy and other people aren’t.
The group of backers includes Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder; venture capitalist Michael Moritz; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson