![]() On the day we speak, Elon Musk is sacking hundreds of people at Twitter, days after taking its reins. It’s hard not to compare Hoffman with another tech giant, now making a name for himself in social media. I don’t want to be world-known, I want to be known by the people who are trying to accomplish the kinds of things where I might be a useful part of their network.’ ‘I don’t think I ever went through the celebrification that tends to happen with these things,’ he says. And yet, unlike Mark Zuckerberg who became an instant celebrity after founding Facebook, Hoffman, a fellow titan of Silicon Valley who made his mark at a similar time, is no household name. Twenty years later, LinkedIn, which went live in 2003, has more than 875 million members. It was in similarly modest digs in Silicon Valley that Hoffman came up with the idea for LinkedIn, the professional social network that is, depending on your profession and cynicism levels, an annoyingly earnest repository for backslapping and self-promotion, or a vital tool for finding jobs and influencing people. In front of it all sits a man with a net worth estimated at just under $2 billion. There’s an under-desk exercise bike and a folding screen propped against a wall, which he sometimes uses as a backdrop for TV appearances. A daybed, strewn with clothes, faces a small wall-mounted TV. Hoffman, 55, is talking to me via Zoom from his home office, which is in Seattle and could barely be more modest. He could have the private jet, the superyacht, the luxury doomsday bunker. Six years have passed since Reid Hoffman oversaw the sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft, confirming his status as a billionaire, and now he can do anything he wants every day for the rest of his life. ![]()
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