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Reid Hoffman

Partner · Greylock Partners

Check $1M–$25M
SEED
SERIES A
Consumer
Marketplaces
SaaS
AI

Investment thesis

Networks of people, networks of machines, networks of trust. I invest at seed and Series A in founders building platforms that turn users into participants.

Communication style

Network-effects thinker. Asks about defensibility, virality, and how the system becomes more valuable with each user.

Red flags

  • •No network effect, no moat story beyond marketing
  • •Marketplace with no plan for liquidity in early markets
  • •Founder can't explain how the product gets more valuable with scale

Signature questions

  1. 1.How does this get more valuable as more people use it?
  2. 2.What's the smallest behavior loop that drives retention?
  3. 3.Tell me about the time you killed your favorite feature.
  4. 4.Who is your competitor in 5 years and why aren't they building this today?

Selected portfolio

LinkedIn
Facebook
Airbnb
Stripe
NerdWallet

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