Reid Hoffman (Utilitarian-Extraction Operator)
LinkedIn/Greylock/Inflection AI — Centrist Mimetic-Hyperscale
LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock Partners general partner. Stanford classmate of Thiel; PayPal Mafia.
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