Reid Hoffman

It’s easy to think that one of the loudest Silicon Valley voices opposing Donald Trump’s presidency would have lost a step after the 2024 U.S. election didn’t go his way, but that would underestimate Reid Hoffman. The PayPal mafioso turned LinkedIn cofounder turned Greylock investor has his hands in many promising pots these days, from Manas AI (a drug discovery startup he cofounded) and Inflection AI (a “personal intelligence” startup he cofounded) to Microsoft (on whose board he has served since 2017) and his growing Masters of Scale media empire. It certainly doesn’t hurt that some of the Silicon Valley peers who vocally backed the current administration are starting to come around—slowly—to Hoffman’s political views.