Reid Hoffman is Chairman at Village Global. He is an entrepreneur and executive who has helped shape some of today’s most important consumer internet companies including LinkedIn (which he co-founded and led for many years) and PayPal. As an investor, he was an early backer of Facebook, Airbnb, OpenAI, Zynga, and others. He is also co-founder of Inflection AI. He is the co-author of the bestselling books Blitzscaling, The Start-up of You and The Alliance. He also hosts the podcast Masters of Scale. Reid sits on the board of Microsoft and various other not-for-profits including Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, Kiva, Endeavor, and the CZI Biohub.