Reid Hoffman Joins the Cryptopunks NFT Community, Reveals Early Crypto Investments Since 2013

COINOTAG News reports that on October 26, Reid Hoffman, the American entrepreneur, updated his Twitter profile to a CryptoPunks NFT and stated he had purchased the NFT months earlier and has invested in crypto since 2013, now joining a leading crypto community.

Hoffman, a Stanford alumnus with a Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science degree and a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, co-founded LinkedIn in 2002. He served as executive chairman until the Microsoft acquisition valued at $26.2 billion in 2016.

In venture capital, he is a partner at Greylock Partners and chairman of Village Global, with early stakes in Airbnb, Facebook, Aurora Innovation, and Joby Aviation, underscoring a diversified tech portfolio.

The move underscores growing alignment between mainstream tech leaders and digital assets, signaling heightened institutional interest and potential capital flows into the crypto ecosystem.