Reid Hoffman
American internet entrepreneur
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| February 2025 | Appointed as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE School of Public Policy, delivering a lecture on the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on society, governance, and global dynamics. |
| January 28 2025 | Released the book 'Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right With our AI Future' co-authored with Greg Beato, which became a New York Times bestseller. The book provides a roadmap for inclusive and adaptive AI integration to drive positive societal change. |
| January 2025 | Launched Manas AI, an AI-enabled drug discovery startup with cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, securing about $25 million in initial funding. |
| 2024 | Reid was appointed a Distinguished Fellow at the Columbia University Institute of Global Politics. |
| 2024 | Delivered a keynote lecture at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, discussing the balance between technological progress and responsibility. |
| 2024 | Initially endorses President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, then shifts support to Vice President Kamala Harris after Biden's withdrawal. |
| 2024 | Hoffman's podcast 'Possible' won two Webby awards, including Best Individual Episode featuring Trevor Noah and Best Crime and Justice Episode featuring Bryan Stevenson. |
| July 2024 | Washington Post reported Hoffman's multimillion-dollar investment in election technology company Smartmatic. |
| April 2024 | Conducted an interview with an AI deepfake of himself, built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and trained on over 20 years of his public speaking and published materials. |
| 2023 | Delivered the Commencement Speech at Bologna Business School, emphasizing the transformative potential of AI as a tool for enhancing human creativity, collaboration, and progress. |
| September 2023 | Received Sigillum Magnum from University of Bologna during the Bologna Business School's commencement ceremony. |
| September 2023 | Wall Street Journal reported details about Hoffman's past interaction with Jeffrey Epstein. |
| August 2023 | Announced he will not serve as a general partner for Greylock's upcoming investment funds. |
| May 9 2023 | Helped fund E. Jean Carroll's successful lawsuit against Donald Trump, resulting in a $5 million jury award. |
| April 2023 | Hoffman's book 'Impromptu' became a Wall Street Journal bestseller. |
| March 2023 | Hoffman and his Chief of Staff Aria Finger began hosting a new podcast called 'Possible', focused on exploring potential future scenarios. |
| March 13 2023 | Reid Hoffman released his book 'Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI', which he claims was written using the GPT-4 large language model. |
| March 3 2023 | Resigned from his board seat at OpenAI to avoid conflicts of interest with his investments in AI companies and role at Inflection AI. |
| 2022 | Delivered the commencement address at Vanderbilt University and received the Nichols-Chancellor's Medal. |
| 2022 | Invested $2.2 million in JusticeText, a platform designed to help public defenders by storing, cataloging, and analyzing video evidence. |
| October 2022 | Joins the Defense Innovation Board, an independent advisory board for the US Department of Defense. |
| March 2022 | Co-founded Inflection AI with Mustafa Suleyman, a startup aimed at developing AI software products to improve human-computer communication. |
| February 2022 | Gives at least $500,000 to the Mainstream Democrats super PAC to support moderate Democratic candidates. |
| 2021 | Offered to match donations to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley up to $2 million in response to increased food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Publishes a piece on LinkedIn about protecting voting rights. |
| 2020 | Writes an article advocating for making Voting Day a holiday. |
| 2019 | Reported to have hosted a dinner attended by Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 2018 | Made a gift to the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information to endow a chair studying the societal impact of artificial intelligence. |
| 2018 | Helps fund Alloy, a data exchange company for Democratic groups, providing half of its $35 million startup funding. |
| 2018 | Hoffman became a founding investor and joined the board of OpenAI. |
| December 2018 | Apologizes for funding an experiment using Russia-inspired political disinformation tactics during the Alabama Senate special race. |
| October 9 2018 | Released the book 'Blitzscaling' co-authored with Chris Yeh, which introduces a strategy for rapidly scaling businesses and outcompeting rivals in the market. |
| May 2018 | Joined the Giving Pledge with his wife Michelle Yee, committing to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. |
| 2017 | Appointed an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to promoting UK business, social networking, and the Marshall Scholarship scheme. |
| May 3 2017 | First episode of 'Masters of Scale' podcast was launched, produced by WaitWhat and hosted by Hoffman. |
| April 25 2017 | Reid Hoffman announced the launch of his business and finance podcast 'Masters of Scale', which would feature interviews with notable entrepreneurs and business leaders. |
| March 14 2017 | Hoffman became a board member at Microsoft following the LinkedIn acquisition. |
| 2016 | Contributes $220,000 in support of Democratic candidate Matt Dunne for Vermont governor. |
| 2016 | Creates a card game satirizing US presidential candidate Donald Trump. |
| November 2016 | Donated $20 million with his wife Michelle Yee to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Biohub, a San Francisco laboratory dedicated to eradicating disease by 2100. Also joined the board of the Biohub project. |
| July 2016 | Funded the $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, created to honor and recognize acts of disobedience resulting in positive social impact. |
| June 13 2016 | Microsoft proposed to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. |
| 2015 | Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. |
| 2015 | Joined the Council on Foreign Relations, further expanding his influence in global political and policy circles. |
| 2014 | Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island for a weekend, which he later claimed was to raise funds for MIT. |
| 2014 | Contributes $500,000 to support David Chiu's State Assembly campaign through an independent expenditure committee. |
| 2014 | Donates $150,000 to the Mayday PAC. |
| 2014 | Led Greylock's Series A financing round in Xapo, a bitcoin wallet company, demonstrating early advocacy for cryptocurrency technology. |
| September 2014 | Awarded the Golden Plate award by the American Academy of Achievement for significant achievement in his field. |
| July 8 2014 | Co-authored and released 'The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age' with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, which became a New York Times bestseller and was praised by Arianna Huffington as the 'must-read book of the summer'. |
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