Hoffman is a Democrat mega-donor and funder of E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Trump.
He was making noises about leaving the country (NYT) after Trump won the Presidential election with the suspicion being he wanted to be out of the jurisdiction should the Department of Justice open investigations into associates of Jeffrey Epstein and Pedo Island:
...Hoffman traveled to the island with Joi Ito, the then-MIT Media Lab director, who had asked Hoffman and Epstein to help raise funds for MIT.
Documents also reveal that director Woody Allen attended dozens of dinners with his wife at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse, while the former president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, asked the late pervert for help raising cash....
Anyhoo, from the AP via US News & World Report, January 27 [interview before DeepSeek roiled the waters]:
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.
They went on to start PayPal during the late 1990s while working alongside a coterie of other bright-eyed entrepreneurs who went on to even bigger things, just as Hoffman did. That group — dubbed the “PayPal Mafia” — included Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, and YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
Now worth an estimated $2.6 billion, Hoffman has been at the forefront of the artificial intelligence craze while investing in trailblazing startups such as ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Inflection. Unlike other prominent technologists who are worried about AI destroying humanity, Hoffman has co-written a new book called “Superagency” that makes an optimistic case for AI. He recently talked with The Associated Press....
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Hoffman owns a chunk of Inflection AI and has a couple smaller bets. He is also a mentor to Sam Altman and was a member of the board of OpenAI.
He doesn't get alpng with fellow PayPal alum Elon Musk:
