
Reid Hoffman
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0
Born1967-08-05
Occupationbusinessperson, consultant, entrepreneur, financier
EmployerChaosium, LinkedIn Corporation, PayPal
EducationStanford University, The Putney School, Wolfson College
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire, Marshall Scholarship
Highlights
“One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode,”
techcrunch.com2026-06-05Source“And so you don’t want to be saying, ‘Hey, as opposed to being the England of the Industrial Revolution, we’re going to be the Poland of the Industrial Revolution.’”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“Like if you do the analysis of rising electricity costs, it has no correlation with the data centers, or even what is relatively modest AI usage so far. And yet all blame for increasing electricity prices today is AI.”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“I obviously feel enormously bad that it took me a few years to understand kind of what the monstrosity was,”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“Just about everything is going to be blamed on AI,”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“The talent race to your average American looks crazy. The amount of money you're paying individuals in order to do this,”
businessinsider.com2025-07-10Source“The fact that universities have not changed, and it's like, 'Well, but I already have my curriculum, and this is the way I've been teaching it for the last X decades,' etc.”
businessinsider.com2025-05-15Source“Wishing for the 1950s past is a bad mistake,”
businessinsider.com2025-05-15Source“Every month, every year, every week that there’s earlier [AI] access causes human goodness,”
time.com2023-09-07Source“XAI is, as Elon himself has described, it's a complete train wreck for its kind of building of foundational models and other kinds of things.”
finance.yahoo.comSource“It wasn’t like we rolled in, and it was like ‘Oh, that was fun and easy,’”
startups.comSource“OK, there was a certain amount of blood lost on that one.”
startups.comSourceBrowse all 15 quotes
“One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode,”
techcrunch.com2026-06-05Source“And so you don’t want to be saying, ‘Hey, as opposed to being the England of the Industrial Revolution, we’re going to be the Poland of the Industrial Revolution.’”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“Like if you do the analysis of rising electricity costs, it has no correlation with the data centers, or even what is relatively modest AI usage so far. And yet all blame for increasing electricity prices today is AI.”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“I obviously feel enormously bad that it took me a few years to understand kind of what the monstrosity was,”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“Just about everything is going to be blamed on AI,”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“The talent race to your average American looks crazy. The amount of money you're paying individuals in order to do this,”
businessinsider.com2025-07-10Source“The fact that universities have not changed, and it's like, 'Well, but I already have my curriculum, and this is the way I've been teaching it for the last X decades,' etc.”
businessinsider.com2025-05-15Source“Wishing for the 1950s past is a bad mistake,”
businessinsider.com2025-05-15Source“Every month, every year, every week that there’s earlier [AI] access causes human goodness,”
time.com2023-09-07Source“XAI is, as Elon himself has described, it's a complete train wreck for its kind of building of foundational models and other kinds of things.”
finance.yahoo.comSource“It wasn’t like we rolled in, and it was like ‘Oh, that was fun and easy,’”
startups.comSource“OK, there was a certain amount of blood lost on that one.”
startups.comSource“But yet it’s all currently blamed to AI,”
semafor.com2026-04-10Source“You could almost think of it as the IAC of AI,”
finance.yahoo.comSource“You're a premium-priced CoreWeave,”
finance.yahoo.comSourceWorks Timeline
In the News
- Reid Hoffman warns AI advances make digital defense increasingly expensivetradersunion.com · 2026-07-22
- Reid Hoffman: SpaceX ‘isn’t an AI company,’ xAI is a ‘train wreck’—and there’s room for OpenAI, Anthropic | Fortunefortune.com · 2026-06-24
- Reid Hoffman Leaves Microsoft's Board to Go Founder Mode — His AI Drug Startup Is Chasing 'Move 37' - FourWeekMBAfourweekmba.com · 2026-06-09
- Reid Hoffman Departs Microsoft Board for AI Startup | The Innovation Dispatchtheinnovationdispatch.com · 2026-06-06
- Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft's board to go 'founder mode' with startup Manas | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com · 2026-06-05
- Reid Hoffman On AI, Superagency, And The Future Of Workyoutube.com · 2026-05-07
- LinkedIn co-founder unveils 'obvious answer' to AI identity - AOLaol.com · 2026-05-06
- Faith in the Possible - by Reid Hoffmanreidhoffman.substack.com · 2026-04-20
- Reid Hoffman Says Teams Must Update AI Strategies - Business Insiderbusinessinsider.com · 2026-04-14
- Reid Hoffman says business leaders must speak up - Fast Companyfastcompany.com · 2026-01-30
- Reid Hoffman Invests in Ultrasound and AI-powered Brain Startup Sanmai - Bloombergbloomberg.com · 2025-06-23
- Reid Hoffman says consoling Gen Z in the AI bloodbath is like putting a 'Band-Aid on a bullet wound'—he shares 4 skills college grads need to survive | Fortunefortune.com · 2025-06-18
- Reid Hoffman on Musk vs. Trump and the real AI threat to jobs - Fast Companyfastcompany.com · 2025-06-17
- LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman to Gen Z graduates: You will become 'enormously attractive' to employers if you ... - The Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2025-06-14
- Reid Hoffman - Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.reidhoffman.org · 2025-03-25
- Reid Hoffman Denies Having 'Beef' With Elon Musk - Business Insiderbusinessinsider.com · 2025-03-13
- LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman talks about AI's superagencyreporter-times.com · 2025-01-31
- LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman talks about AI's superagencyeu.eveningtribune.com · 2025-01-31
- LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman sees bright AI future and hopes his tech peers are right about Trump | AP Newsapnews.com · 2025-01-27
- Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman) - Econlibecontalk.org · 2025-01-27
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