LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

Elon Musk's career ventures have been as expansive as they are innovative. From co-funding Tesla and creating PayPal to launching Starlink and having a major role in creating OpenAI, Musk has left