An accomplished entrepreneur, executive and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock Partners. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo and a few early-stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of nonprofit boards including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and DoSomething. He is the Host of “Masters of Scale,” an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50/50 gender balance for featured guests. He is the Co-Author of two New York Times best-selling books: “The Start-Up of You” and “The Alliance.” His new book is “Blitzscaling,” based on his Stanford course of the same name. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford and a graduate of Stanford University.