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Background
Summary
All aspects of consumer internet and software. Focus is on product development, innovation, business strategy, and finance, but includes general management, operations, business operations, business development, talent management, and marketing. Strong experience in both seed-stage companies (paypal, linkedin, facebook, zynga, last.fm, flickr) and growth companies (mozilla, linkedin, zynga, paypal.)
Specialties:General management, product development, business models, strategy, negotiation, financing, deal structure, international, marketing, brand development, brand management, business development, public relations, press strategy, payments infrastructure, financial services, mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, business development, software development, operations centers, board management, investing.
Specialties:General management, product development, business models, strategy, negotiation, financing, deal structure, international, marketing, brand development, brand management, business development, public relations, press strategy, payments infrastructure, financial services, mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, business development, software development, operations centers, board management, investing.
Experience
Executive Chairman and co-Founder
Working on key strategic issues day-to-day at Linkedin. My focus is broad strategy, innovation, and key initiatives. Linkedin connects the worlds professionals for information sharing, productivity, and success. Your professional network is how you stay competitive as a professional: sharing tips on work practices, benchmarks, and key tools. Your professional network is how you stay up to date on your industry: key trends, information, and transformations. Your professional network is how you get the best opportunities: a job, a client, a consulting contract, or other business connections. Linkedin helps you collaborate with your network on productivity, information, and success.
Partner
Greylock
Greylock Partners works with entrepreneurs to build market-transforming companies. Current Greylock portfolio includes companies like Linkedin, Facebook, Workday, Airbnb, Pure Storage, Cloudera, Edmodo, Shopkick, Dropbox, Pandora, and SumoLogic. I represent Greylock on the boards of Airbnb, Edmodo, Shopkick, and Wrapp. James Slavet and I partner on Greylock's investment in Coupons.com.
My primary focus is world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas with the possibility of massive scale. I also focus on companies in domains where my product and innovation experience applies strongly: consumer internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, SAAS, and social networks. I collaborate with Simon Rothman on Greylock's Marketplace initiative.
Getting a reference through someone I know is the best way to get attention from me as an investor.
My primary focus is world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas with the possibility of massive scale. I also focus on companies in domains where my product and innovation experience applies strongly: consumer internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, SAAS, and social networks. I collaborate with Simon Rothman on Greylock's Marketplace initiative.
Getting a reference through someone I know is the best way to get attention from me as an investor.
Board Observer
Airbnb
Airbnb is the world’s largest community-driven hospitality company. Whether it’s a chic urban loft, a stylish treehouse, or an artist’s garden retreat, with unique listings in 34,000+ cities and 190+ countries, travelers can feel at home wherever they go. Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone.
Member, Board of Directors
Edmodo
Edmodo connects learners with the people and resources they need to reach their full potential. On Edmodo, teachers are at the center of a dynamic and engaging network that connects them to students, administrators and parents, and surfaces the world’s best resources and formative assessment tools that contribute to better learning outcomes. Founded in 2008 and used by 91 of the top 100 U.S. school districts, Edmodo was designed to protect the privacy and security of students and teachers by providing a closed, private platform in which they can collaborate, share content, and leverage educational apps to augment in-classroom learning. These powerful capabilities enable teachers to personalize learning for every student. Edmodo will always be free for teachers and students.
Board Observer
Xapo
Xapo combines the convenience of an everyday bitcoin wallet with the security of a deep cold storage vault. By bringing together convenience that bitcoin users want everyday with the security they require for saving, Xapo is the most secure, reliable, and easy way to manage and store your bitcoin.
Member, Board of Directors
Mozilla Corporation
Evangelists and champions of the free and open web-platform, Firefox. Firefox allows consumers the experience they want, all software and internet companies to build extensions, and open-source developers to contribute freely and democratically. Firefox works to keep a free, open web -- both through its own platform and by inspiring other browsers to create open apis and platforms with great consumer experiences.
Member, Board of Directors
Kiva.org
Kiva provides an entrepreneur's marketplace for social micro-lending. The entrepreneurs are pre-vetted by micro-finance organizations. They are then listed on Kiva's web marketplace, and interested and motivated lenders can lend money for the creation of businesses. It is a paradigm case of teaching to fish rather than giving fish.
Chair, Westcoast Advisory Board
Questbridge
QuestBridge is a revenue generating non-profit which now places more talented low-income youth into 28 top colleges including Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, MIT, Williams, and Yale. Approximately 1500 Quest students were accepted to our partner colleges in 2008 alone (146 at Stanford for instance, and 11% of the entering class of Amherst). .
QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision makers drawn from every economic segment of society. QuestBridge revolutionizes the way leading colleges and universities recruit talented low-income students, and the way these students approach their once-in-a-lifetime educations and futures.
QuestBridge aims to create a singular place where exceptionally talented low-income students can navigate educational and life opportunities. QuestBridge recruits, develops, and supports motivated low-income students – beginning in high school through college to their first job – to be successful at America’s best colleges, graduate schools, and companies.
QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision makers drawn from every economic segment of society. QuestBridge revolutionizes the way leading colleges and universities recruit talented low-income students, and the way these students approach their once-in-a-lifetime educations and futures.
QuestBridge aims to create a singular place where exceptionally talented low-income students can navigate educational and life opportunities. QuestBridge recruits, develops, and supports motivated low-income students – beginning in high school through college to their first job – to be successful at America’s best colleges, graduate schools, and companies.
Member, Board of Directors
shopkick
The shopkick app is the ultimate shopping companion that inspires, organizes and rewards. At home or on the go, browse through themed “books”, "like” items anywhere you want, to be reminded next time you visit a store where they’re sold and connect with others of similar taste to discover and share coveted items. All this while earning rewards along the way for everyday shopping actions like store visits, picking up products at stores, and purchases. Shopkick’s growing Partner Alliance includes American Eagle Outfitters, Best Buy, Crate and Barrel, JCPenney, Macy’s, MasterCard, Old Navy, Simon Property Group, Sony, The Sports Authority, Visa, Procter & Gamble, Mondelez, Revlon, Unilever, Pepsi, Levi’s, HP and more.
Member, Board of Directors
Zynga
Zynga has created the mass movement in internet social games: Farmville, Frontierville, Cafe World, Mafia Wars, Texas Hold 'em. Zynga is the world leader in internet social games.
Member, Provost Council
College Eight, UCSC
College Eight is a residential educational college part of UCSC. The focus is environmental citizenship, ranging from topics of civics and justice to entrepreneurship. The new educational goal is to achieve academic excellence through current research and teaching, and also through connections with business and government. The principal focus of the college is helping foster the next generation of green entrepreneurs.
Member, Board of Directors
Six Apart
SixApart produces the best publishing platforms on the web for self-expression through words, pictures, and other media. For self-hosting and business, it produces the leading blogging software MoveableType. For hosted web publishing with great looks and effective tools, SixApart has the best blogging service TypePad. And for younger web communities, it has LiveJournal. Recently, SixApart has launched Vox which allows great sharing within your own private community -- your family, your friends, and your neighborhood as you want it.
Member, Board of Directors
If(we)
The teen social network for teens. It's a place on the web only for teens - hip, interesting, and cool. Within a short time, it has millions of teens; and the most interesting parts are still to arrive.
Member, Board of Directors
Vendio
Vendio provides best of breed, easy-to-use services for small businesses on eBay and on the Internet. Vendio also provides a great price-checking and comparing toolbar so that you never overpay on the internet again: www.dealio.com.
Angel Investor
Aufklarung LLC
Angel investor (seed, series A) in over 70 companies. Active companies include: www.facebook.com, www.zynga.com, www.linkedin.com, www.digg.com, www.last.fm, www.bioscale.com, www.nanosolar.com, www.taxipass.com, www.naseeb.com, www.technorati.com, www.realtravel.com, www.targetedgrowth.com, www.wikia.com, www.adventsolar.com, www.oorjaprotonics.com, www.bioscale.com, www.ning.com, www.tagged.com, www.kongregate.com, www.intentmedia.com, www.funnyordie.com, www.ironport.com, www.flixster.com, www.care.com, www.grockit.com, www.mashlogic.com, www.opencandy.com, www.knewton.com, www.intentmedia.com, www.winster.com, www.aviary.com, www.grouply.com, www.seesmic.com, www.viglink.com, www.buysight.com, www.onekingslane.com, www.shopkick.com, and www.sixapart.com.
Exits include: www.ironport.com, www.last.fm, www.friendster.com, www.flickr.com, www.kongregate.com. www.vendio.com.
Exits include: www.ironport.com, www.last.fm, www.friendster.com, www.flickr.com, www.kongregate.com. www.vendio.com.
Member, Board of Directors
Grassroots
Best IT infrastructure and enablement for grassroots campaigns for corporations. Grassroots campaigns are extremely important for the modern corporation, as regulation, political competition, and risk mitigation are essential. The best way to solve these problems: utilize your corporation's constintuency as a political force. And corporations do have constituencies -- employees, shareholders, customers, partners, vendors, and others.
Chairman and CEO
LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional networking service. LinkedIn offers the best service for finding other professionals as experts, consultants, employees or simply a similar professional to consult. LinkedIn offers the best professional answers product on the web for professionals finding information, people, or resources to solve professional problems. LinkedIn offers serious tools for staying up-to-date on professional news – either from the web or about your connections. Linkedin offers good communication and collaboration tools for companies, alumni groups, organizations and special interest groups. Finally, LinkedIn is one of the best places to find work – either as an employee or as a free agent – or workers – either as an employee or a consultant.
Chairman and President, Products
LinkedIn powers your professional life by enabling you to:
-Control your professional profile online (on LinkedIn and in search engines like Google)
-Tap into your trusted network for opportunities, referrals, and answers to critical business questions
-Search for the right professionals (experts, hires, references, consultants, service providers)
LinkedIn’s primary customer will always be each individual professional. LinkedIn also provides services for companies, professional associations, alumni associations, non-profits, and conferences.
My role is product and business strategy, evangelizing the utility to every professional.
-Control your professional profile online (on LinkedIn and in search engines like Google)
-Tap into your trusted network for opportunities, referrals, and answers to critical business questions
-Search for the right professionals (experts, hires, references, consultants, service providers)
LinkedIn’s primary customer will always be each individual professional. LinkedIn also provides services for companies, professional associations, alumni associations, non-profits, and conferences.
My role is product and business strategy, evangelizing the utility to every professional.
Member, Board of Advisors
Center for Citizen Media
The Center for Citizen Media is a new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level. The nonprofit Center is jointly affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School. In the new information age of the internet, media becomes much stronger through massive grassroots participation in discovery and reporting.
CEO and Chairman
LinkedIn Inc.
Founded the company. Led the first four years of LinkedIn. Three rounds of financing: Sequoia, Greylock, Bessemer. Built the company to 9 million+ members, past profitability, and with all metrics accelerating. Hired a world-class CEO to take the organization and business to next level, to keep up with our growth. Now working to show each professional how LinkedIn is essential to their professional lives.
Executive Vice-President
PayPal
Responsible for all external relationships for PayPal, including Payments Infrastructure (VISA, MasterCard, ACH, WellsFargo), Business Development (eBay, Intuit, others), Goverment (Regulatory, Judicial), and Legal. At various times, also responsible for PR, Strategy, Payments Innovations, and Customer Service.
Member, Board of Directors
PayPal
On the board of directors at the founding of the company. When I assumed a full-time position at PayPal in Jan 2000, I stepped down from the board due to the limitation of having only two company insiders on the board.
Co-Founder, Board Member, and Vice-President, Product
Socialnet.com
The product guy for this internet start-up: vision, product management, product development. Best matching engine, very positively reviewed.
Director of Product Management and Development
Fujitsu Software Corporation
General Manager and product manager for WorldsAway, one of the earliest successful virtual worlds. Migrated WorldsAway from Client-Server architecture on CompuServe to deploy on the Web.
Senior User Experience Architect
Apple Computer
Responsible for the design and launch of eWorld International, Classifieds, Global Access Assistant, and other strategic projects.
Publications
The Startup of You
Crown
February 14, 2012
People should lead their lives as entrepreneurs -- not necessarily starting companies, but investing in themselves, adapting to the fast changing future, and creating breakout opportunities. Adaptability is the new stability for modern careers.
The Alliance
Harvard Business Review Press
July 8, 2014
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent.
The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.
The Alliance teaches managers how to...more
The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.
The Alliance teaches managers how to...more
Courses
Stanford University
- First Order Logic (160A)
- First Order Logic (160A)
Oxford University
- Wittgenstein
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Board of Directors
Kiva.org
– Present (10 years 1 month)Economic Empowerment
Kiva provides an entrepreneur's marketplace for social micro-lending. The entrepreneurs are pre-vetted by micro-finance organizations. They are then listed on Kiva's web marketplace, and interested and motivated lenders can lend money for the creation of businesses. It is a paradigm case of teaching to fish rather than giving fish.
Board of Directors
Endeavor
Economic Empowerment
Endeavor supports high impact entrepreneurs around the world.
Causes Reid cares about:
- Children
- Civil Rights and Social Action
- Economic Empowerment
- Education
- Environment
- Health
- Human Rights
- Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
- Poverty Alleviation
- Science and Technology
Skills
Top Skills
Reid also knows about...
Education
Stanford University
B.S., Symbolic Systems
Activities and Societies: Marshall Scholar, Dinkelspiel Award, Golden Grant, Founder of the Symbolic Systems Forum
Additional Info
Interests
Personal Details
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Advice for Contacting Reid
Unfortunately, I'm extremely busy.
First: if you have an interest in getting my attention for an investment, working at Linkedin, a business development deal (for Linkedin or another portfolio company), then I *highly* recommend that you get an introduction to me. I am almost certainly not going to engage without a reference/introduction.
Second: I am generally not available for new projects. If it’s a new project, you must have a great introduction. Otherwise, I generally recommend you indicate who you would like to be connected with at one of my organizations to proceed.
Third: sadly, because I’m busy, if your communication to me is just a generic “ask” of me, I’m very likely just to decline it. Nevertheless, I wish you the best success if your project is a good improvement in the world.
First: if you have an interest in getting my attention for an investment, working at Linkedin, a business development deal (for Linkedin or another portfolio company), then I *highly* recommend that you get an introduction to me. I am almost certainly not going to engage without a reference/introduction.
Second: I am generally not available for new projects. If it’s a new project, you must have a great introduction. Otherwise, I generally recommend you indicate who you would like to be connected with at one of my organizations to proceed.
Third: sadly, because I’m busy, if your communication to me is just a generic “ask” of me, I’m very likely just to decline it. Nevertheless, I wish you the best success if your project is a good improvement in the world.
Honors & Awards
Additional Honors & Awards
Marshall Scholarship, Dinkelspiel Award (Stanford), Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize (Proxime Accessit, Oxford), SD Forum Visionary Award, Henry Crown Fellowship, Martin Luther King Center Salute to Greatness Recognition 2012, Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce 2012
