He went to Oxford as a prestigious Marshall Scholar.
After graduation he had decided that the next step in his journey of achieving his life's goal to change humanity was a rigorous philosophy education. It gave him a new lens for viewing the world, teaching him that you set your own path and pursue "work on solving the problem" rather than "being an expert within a discipline," he said.įrom Putney, Hoffman went to Stanford, where he majored in Symbolic Systems, a unique discipline combining elements of computer science, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. Putney's combination of rigorous academics with manual skills and art education inspired Hoffman. Hoffman decided to leave his hometown of Berkeley, California to attend the Putney School in Vermont, an elite boarding school where instead of wearing uniforms for morning chapel services, students head to a farm to milk cows or chop wood. "Luck will play a huge component of it, but as you think about it, you go, 'OK, well maybe I won't get the billions - maybe I'll only get to hundreds of millions or tens of millions." "I tend to think that you should always have a fairly big goal and I, of course, know that the likelihood that I'm going to make big changes for the billions of people on the Earth is very difficult," he said. That is, he explained, how can he help people improve both as individuals and as social groups? In a recent interview for Business Insider's podcast " Success! How I Did It," Hoffman told us that since high school, his goal has been "How do I help humanity evolve?" LinkedIn founder and Greylock investor Reid Hoffman has had the same driving force since he was a teenager.
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