You are listening to the Draper Fisher-Jervinson Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar,

brought to you weekly by Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering.

So with no further ado, I'd like to introduce our guest for today. Before I do that, how many of you are on LinkedIn? Please raise your hand. That's great. Share. And those of you who are not, if you're wireless, that's all right, you don't have to, if you're, there are at least a couple of people who are online in the room and they may be able to get you onto the site before the hours over, if not go home right after and get on.

It's one of the most useful social networking sites on the planet.

I'm only involved in one social networking site, and LinkedIn is the one.

So, but what about our guest?

Reed Hoffman is the founder, and he is the chairman and president of products of LinkedIn.

And those of you who have the hard copy version of the announcement for the day, see that his bio says a slightly different thing.

And that is because Reid brought in his new CEO that he's going to bring into the firm

to take it to the next level.

He'll be staying with LinkedIn, but he has brought in a new executive by the name of Dan

Nye.

And so it's been a very, very busy week, and we're really glad that Reed has been able to

spare the time to come and visit with us today despite all the things that are happening

as he changes around his executive

team at LinkedIn. In addition to the work there, he's had a very storied career. He's

been at places like Apple. He's invested in virtually all of the interesting social networking

startups that were founded over the course of the last decade. You can read faster than I can talk about that.

So let's welcome.

A warm welcome back to Stanford to an alumni of the school

and one of our favorite folks out there in the valley,

Reed Hoffman.

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