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Reid Hoffman

Founder of Inflection AI

United States

Overview 

Reid Hoffman is currently a Partner at Greylock in Menlo Park, California, specializing in investing in various sectors including TransportationTech, Gaming/eSports, and Health & Hospital Services. Notable career achievements include investments in companies like Uplimit, Applied Intuition, and Entrepreneur First, showcasing a track record of successful investments across different stages and industries.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder, Board Chair

    2025 - Current

    Manas AI leverages proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best in class biology to cut the timeline and costs of traditional therapeutic discovery and transform the treatment of cancer and rare disease. While we're still in the early stages of contemporary AI development, initiatives like Manas AI show how close we already are to advances that can profoundly change the world. Success in our quest will give thousands of oncologists around the world new therapeutics to combat diseases that have shaped human existence since before recorded history, constraining human possibilities and causing immense suffering and loss. The future of medicine has never held more promise.

  • Distinguished Fellow

    2024

    Institute of Global Politics

  • Co-Founder, Board Member

    2022

    Inflection AI is a public benefit corporation leveraging our world-class large language model to build the first AI platform focused on the needs of the enterprise. I helped start Inflection AI to further a vision where artificial intelligence empowers individuals and amplifies human capabilities. In March 2024, an expanded team of kind, innovative, and collaborative individuals grew Inflection’s scope to focus on building enterprise AI solutions.

Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.

Raised $1,525,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, NVIDIA, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, CoreWeave, Microsoft and Reid Hoffman.

  • Partner

    2009

    Greylock partners with entrepreneurs to build market-transforming companies. Notable Greylock portfolio companies include Linkedin, Airbnb, Facebook, Workday, Roblox, Palo Alto Networks, Dropbox, Pure Storage, Instagram and Discord. I represent Greylock on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Entrepreneur First, Tome, and Nauto. My primary focus is world-class entrepreneurs with bold new ideas with the possibility of massive scale. I also focus on companies in domains where my product and entrepreneurial experience applies strongly: consumer internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, SAAS, and social networks.

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.

  • Chairperson

    2017

    Village Global is a network-native VC firm backed by tech industry luminaries. When you join a Village, seed capital is just the beginning. Village helps you go faster with an incredible founder community, expert advice, and game-changing introductions. As the Chairman of Village since 2017, I have supported the community as we’ve built a network of experienced founders and advisors who are democratizing access to startup wisdom.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. I believe in technology's power to empower people and transform industries. Microsoft exemplifies this mission at a global scale. Joining the board allowed me to contribute to a company that is using AI and cloud computing to amplify human potential and enhance productivity and creativity for billions.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Board Member

    2018

    Aurora is a leading autonomous vehicle technology company, focused on self-driving solutions for freight, delivery, and passenger transport. The Aurora Driver platform integrates hardware, software, and data services to enable safe and efficient transportation. Aurora is a bet on the transformative potential of autonomous technology to revolutionize logistics and mobility while addressing pressing challenges like safety and efficiency in transportation.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Nauto develops AI-powered driver and fleet safety systems to reduce collisions and improve driving behavior. By leveraging real-time insights, it enhances operational efficiency for businesses and supports safer roads for all. Backing Nauto is an opportunity to leverage AI to make the roads safer while driving value for thousands of businesses.

Nauto is a transportation company that provides an AI-enabled fleet and driver safety tool to help detect and prevent distracted driving.

Raised $173,850,000.00 from Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Entrepreneur First identifies founders with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent. Serving on Entrepreneur First’s board has allowed me to play a small role in fostering entrepreneurship by investing in individuals and giving more exceptional leaders access to capital.

  • Honorary Fellow

    2016

    I first attended Wolfson College at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, earning an MSt in Philosophy in 1993. It was a privilege to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship by my alma mater in 2016.

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