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Friday 9th May
10.00am
The Cambridge Union
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 and in 2009 he joined Greylock as a partner.
In 2022, Hoffman co-founded Inflection AI, an AI studio that created Pi. In 2025, he co-founded Manas AI, a company that leverages proprietary AI and best in class biology to cure cancer. He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Entrepreneur First, Microsoft, Nauto, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number
of not-for-profit boards, including Endeavor, CZ Biohub, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of two award-winning podcasts – Masters of Scale, where iconic business leaders share strategies that have helped them grow, as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there.
He is the co-author of six best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, , and Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.

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