Reid Hoffman — founder (linkedin) with roots in the Russian Empire
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author who co-founded LinkedIn — the world's largest professional networking platform — and was a founding board member of PayPal. He is one of Silicon Valley's most influential investor-entrepreneurs.
Tracing the roots — Russia / East Euro
Hoffman's family has Eastern European and Russian Jewish ancestry — part of the immigrant Jewish communities that settled in America. Growing up in this Jewish intellectual tradition, Hoffman's career — building LinkedIn as a professional network for human potential — carries something of the immigrant's belief that connections and credentials are the key to opportunity.
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Russia / East Euro. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.