Jeff Weiner
Founding Partner at Next Play Ventures
Jeff Weiner
Founding Partner at Next Play Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Chairman
2020 - Current
Help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Continue to mentor and coach the leadership team, and advise on key strategic initiatives.
CEO
2008 - 2020
Over 11 year tenure as CEO, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to $7.9B and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.
Founding Partner
2020
Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Focus primarily on early stage and growth opportunities, e.g., Esusu, Gather, Common Room, The Browser Company, Brilliant, and more.
Investor/Advisor
2008 - 2020
Investments include Figma, Notion, Brex, Scale, Headspace Health, Vox Media and more. Previous exits include Slack (IPO) and Cloudera (IPO).
Founding LP, Investment Committee
2019
Advisor and member of the investment committee for this newly created early stage fund and foundation focused on empowering diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities, and companies committed to building diverse teams.
Member, Board of Directors
2007
One of the web's leading philanthropic marketplaces, designed to enable teachers to upload classroom projects in need of funding, and for anyone to select and fund a project.
Co-Founder
2017
The Compassion Project is an initiative designed to ensure compassion is taught in every primary school in the U.S. To date, 34k schools have registered, impacting over 1M students. Co-founded with Everfi, an innovative edtech provider that has been essential in developing and distributing the coursework.
Member, Advisory Board
2011
BGCP’s mission is to help its members develop the academic and life skills they need to complete high school ready for college and career. BGCP serves youth in grades K–12 at nine locations: three clubhouses and six school sites in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City, where over half the youth drop out of high school. While most youth development organizations select the young people whom they serve, BGCP serves all youth. The organization has grown rapidly over the past five years and now serves 2,000 active members at its nine sites.
Member, Board of Directors
2012 - 2023
Intuit is a leading provider of innovative business and financial management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, consumers, accounting professionals and financial institutions.
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2021
EVERFI is an international technology company driving social impact through education to address the most challenging issues affecting society ranging from financial wellness to mental health to workplace conduct and other critical topics. Founded in 2008, EVERFI’s Impact-as-a-Service™ solution and digital educational content have reached more than 45 million learners globally.
Member, Advisory Board
2012 - 2021
Innovative fellowship program that places top college graduates in start-ups for two years in low-cost U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Member, Board of Directors
2007 - 2015
Non-profit organization with the mission to eradicate the millions of preventable and treatable deaths due to malaria. Working in conjunction with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Education
Bachelor of Science
1988 - 1992