Celebrity46 booksReid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author who significantly shaped the modern internet landscape as a cofounder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn. Often referred to as the orchestrator of Silicon Valley, he served as an executive vice president at PayPal, becoming an integral member of the influential PayPal Mafia. As a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, he made landmark early stage investments in transformative tech companies including Facebook and Airbnb. He is a prominent voice on artificial intelligence, serving on the boards of Microsoft and various AI research initiatives. Through his popular books and the Masters of Scale podcast, he remains a leading authority on business scaling and technology.
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Books Reid Hoffman recommends
A curated library compiled from public recommendations, interviews and posts.
Zero to One
Snow Crash
The Lord of the Rings
The Art Of War
High Growth Handbook
Measure What Matters : OKRs
The True Believer
The Founders
The Moment of Lift
Tools and Weapons
The Start-up of You
On War
The Moral Animal
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Nonzero
The Airbnb Story
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Industries of the Future
Connected Strategy
The Evolution of God
Smart People Should Build Things
Angel Investing
More Human
The Inner Lives of Markets
The Meaning Revolution
Blitzscaling
The Alliance
The Seventh Sense
Conscious Business
Sapiens
Tribal Leadership
This Brave New World
The Gene
New Power
Essentialism
Alpha Girls
Lady Justice
Making Americans
Zero to IPO
Renewal
Machine, Platform, Crowd
Connect
The Big Score
WTF?
Backable
Educated
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