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REI D HOFFMAN Co-Founder, LinkedIn & Partner, Greylock PATRICK COLLISON Co-Founder and CEO, Stripe An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today's leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking service. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world. In 2009 Reid joined Greylock Partners. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Edmodo, Convoy, Blockstream and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Mozilla Corporation, Endeavor, and CZI Biohub. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid is the host of Masters of Scale, an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests. He is also the co-author of two New York Times best- selling books: The Start-Up of You and The Alliance. His next book is focused on "blitzscaling", based on his Stanford course of the same name. Reid earned a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. Patrick Collison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stripe, the technology company that expands internet commerce by making it easy to process transactions from anywhere. Patrick founded Stripe with his brother, John, in 2010 to make the process of starting a business simpler and more inclusive. Today, the 1200-person (and growing) company processes billions of dollars a year for hundreds of thousands of businesses, from start-ups to Fortune 500's. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick now lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based. 5 S P E A K E R S