Previous guests of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference have included an American internet entrepreneur who was the co-founder and executive chairman of what business-oriented social network?
Reid Hoffman Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. On the "Forbes" 2017 list of the world's billionaires, Hoffman was ranked #631 with a net worth of US$3.1 billion.
Alfred A. Marcus Alfred Allen Marcus (born 1950) is an American author and the Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technology Leadership at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and the Technological Leadership Institute. He has worked as a consultant with companies such as 3M, Corning Inc., Xcel Energy, Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM and has also taught as a visiting professor at Technion, INCAE, BI Norwegian Business School, and MIT.