Background
Hoffman is a son of Amalia Hoffman of Larchmont, New York, and Edward M. Hoffman of Montvale, New Jersey.
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Hoffman is a son of Amalia Hoffman of Larchmont, New York, and Edward M. Hoffman of Montvale, New Jersey.
Hoffman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1996.
Amalia Hoffman is an author and illustrator of children's books Edward M. Hoffman works in New York as a software engineer and software consultant to the financial industry. Hoffman founded Kyber Systems in his junior year at University of California Berkeley, as a way to pay for school.
Kyber was sold to Human Ingenuity in 1997.
Hoffman founded Bridgepath Incorporated. in 1998, which was acquired by Bullhorn Incorporated. in October 2002. Also in 2002 he sold a website GetRelevant to Lycos.
He then became chair of the Stonebrick Group through 2006, which sponsored networking events in the San Francisco area such as one called the Silicon Forum. He reportedly once showed up to a meeting in a rented truck, and parked blocks away to reduce his chances of being seen.
Hoffman is called an expert networker, and described by one author as a "catalyst", because he often "maps" people to see how they fit into his social network.
Hoffman is a speaker at events in the technology industry, WSJ Blogs call him "a fixture in the Silicon Valley scene," and Gawker Media"s Valleywag refers to him as "uberconnected." He served as its Chief Executive Officer until August 2012. In 2013 TowerData Incorporated. acquired Rapleaf for an undisclosed sum. Hoffman became Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp when it spun off from Rapleaf in 2012.
On May 14, 2014 Acxiom announced that it had acquired Liveramp, a company spun out of Rapleaf and co-founded by Hoffman for $310 Million.
In December 2011, Hoffman became a venture capitalist with the Founders Fund. However, he separated from the fund by the end of 2012.
Hoffman was reported by Silicon Valley blog VentureBeat in 2007 of editing his own Wikipedia article. Hoffman responded that he removed inappropriate comments.
Gawker mentioned a controversy surrounding privacy practices at Rapleaf.
750 Industries, AdRocket, Aardvark (search engine) (sold to Google), Any.do, BackTweets by Backtype (sold to Twitter), Betable, Blip.tv, BrightRoll, Chomp (search engine) (sold to Apple), Circulate, Commerce Sciences, CrowdFlower, Curebit, Deliciious Brands, DoubleDutch, Dynamic Yield, Euclid Analytics, Everyme, Factual, Flowtown (sold to Demandforce which was sold to Intuit), Founders Fund II, Founders Fund III, Founders Fund IV, Hackpad, Huddler, Influitive, Kaggle, Klout, Kontagent, LabPixies (sold to Google), Logik Systems, Meebo (sold to Google), MerchantCircle (sold to Replycom), MesmoTV (sold to GSN), mob.ly (sold to GroupOn), MomentFeed, OtherInbox (sold to ReturnPath), Pingboard, Practice Fusion, Pulse.io, ReadyForce, RateItAll, Rentlytics, RentMetrics, Retargeter.com, RichRelevance, Scopely, Sense Incorporated., Sharethrough, Shelf.com, Solve Media, Thumbtack (website), Unbounce, Viglink, Zoom Systems., Zozi, and more. In 2011 Hoffman married an assistant United States. Attorney, Hallie Alexandra Mitchell. Federal judge Barry G. Silverman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Phoenix, Arizona officiated the wedding which was held in Nashotah, Wisconsin.
Mitchell graduated from Princeton University, and received a law degree from Northwestern University.