Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List #3 ranking (2012)
★Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
★David Packard Medal of Achievement Award by TechAmerica
★Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship appointed by Obama
★Distinguished Citizen Award from Commonwealth Club of California
★Multiple Webby Awards for Masters of Scale podcast
★Martin Luther King Jr. Center 'Salute to Greatness' award
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn (sold to Microsoft for $26.2 billion)
→Founding team member at PayPal alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel
→Partner at Greylock Partners managing $20 million Discovery Fund
→Early investor in Facebook, Airbnb, OpenAI, and dozens of major tech companies
→Author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including 'Superagency' and 'Impromptu'
→Host of top-ranked 'Masters of Scale' podcast featuring interviews with major CEOs
→Co-founder of Inflection AI and Manas AI
→Microsoft board member since 2017
→Estimated net worth of $2.6 billion
→Major Democratic Party donor and political advocate