硅谷重量级创业教父、天使投资人、演讲人，《福布斯》杂志排名第一的创业孵化器——FoundersSpace创始人，人称“霍夫曼船长”。成立Founders Space以来，他致力于全球资源连接与整合，多年来培训指导了全球数百家初创公司的创始人，其中就有为人熟知的图片分享平台Instagram。他在旧金山和这些创始人一起工作，帮助他们理解创新的基本方法、模式和硅谷的理念，并实际运用这些方法和理念来推出具有革命性的产品和服务。来自亚洲、欧洲和美洲等的50多家全球合作伙伴都在广泛采用他的团队开发的创业培训课程。他也常在硅谷及世界各地的科技及商业大会上发表演讲，活跃于全球科技和创业社群中。身为创业导师，他也经常出现在《纽约时报》、TechCrunch、《福布斯》、《快公司》等欧美主流媒体上。
史蒂文·霍夫曼的专著被誉为“创业者的教科书”的《让大象飞》于2017年2月正式出版。
Steven S. Hoffman is a heavyweight startup godfather in Silicon Valley, an angel investor, a speaker and the founder of Founders Space - #1 accelerator for startups in Forbes Magazine. People call him “Captain Hoff.” He used to be a script writer in Hollywood and he established a mobile game company, an interactive media company and a software development company.
Since the founding of Founders Space, he has been dedicated to the connection and integration of global resource chain. Over the years, he has trained entrepreneurs for hundreds of startups around the world, one of which is the well-known photo sharing platform of Instagram. He works with these entrepreneurs in San Francisco, helping them understand basic methods and patterns for innovation as well as Silicon Valley’s concepts. He actually utilized these methods and concepts to launch revolutionary products and services. Startup training courses developed by his team are widely adopted by more than five dozens of global partners from Asia, Europe and America. He also makes speech in technology and business conventions in Silicon Valley and across the world and he is very active in global technology community as well as entrepreneur social groups. As a mentor for startups, he also appears frequently in U.S. and Europe mainstream media such as “New York Times,” TechCrunch, “Forbes,” and “Fast Company.”
Steven S. Hoffman’s book of “Making Elephants Fly” was published in February of 2017 and has been recognized as a “textbook for entrepreneurs.”
