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Captain Hoff (Steve Hoffman) is the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space, a global venture builder with over 50 strategic partners in 22 countries.
He’s a well-known angel investor, AI expert, and the author of three award-winning books: Make Elephants Fly (radical innovation), Surviving a Startup (entrepreneurship), and The Five Forces (AI & future tech).
Hoffman served on the Board of Governors of the Producers Guild’s New Media Council, was the founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, and was a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group.
Hoffman also advises global corporations on innovation, leadership, and AI strategy. These have included Qualcomm, Adobe, Alibaba, Bosch, PwC, Accenture, Infosys, Intel, Cemex, Gulf Oil, MetLife, Cognizant, and Ralph Lauren.
As a serial entrepreneur, Hoffman combined new technologies with entertainment, producing groundbreaking games and interactive shows, like “WebRIOT,” “No Boundaries,” “Weakest Link,” “Yumby,” and “RocketOn.” He was also Head of Infospace’s Mobile Games Studio, whose play-for-prizes games included “Tetris,” “Wheel of Fortune,” “Tomb Raider,” “Thief,” “Hitman,” “Skee-Ball,” “X-Files,” and more.
Prior to this, Hoffman worked as a TV development executive at Fries Entertainment, which produced over a hundred TV shows, movies, and mini-series that were acquired by MGM. He went on to pioneer interactive television with his venture-funded startup, Spiderdance, which produced interactive TV shows with NBC, MTV, Turner, Warner Brothers, History Channel, Game Show Network, and others.
Hoffman earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of California and a master’s degree in film and television from the University of Southern California. He currently resides in California but spends most of his time helping entrepreneurs and innovators around the world bring their dreams to life.
Speaking Topics
• Silicon Valley Investing & Tech Trends
• AI is Eating Everything!
• Hyper Innovation: AI Leadership & Strategy
• AI Transformation & Agent-Driven Workflows
• The Next-Generation of AI World Models
• The Future of Robotics & Frontier Technology
• Innovator’s Mindset: Think Like a Startup
• Raising Venture Capital in Silicon Valley
• Hunting Unicorns: Building Billion-Dollar Businesses
• How to Develop Global Startup Ecosystems
Past Speaking Engagements
Keynotes & Seminars
Podcast Interviews
• Success Story
• Financially Free
• Unmistakably Creative
• The Silicon Valley Podcast
• More…
AI Will Run the Economy
The AI Tsunami is Coming!
AI Is Eating Everything
How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur in the LLM Era
Brain Hacking & Mind Tech
The AI Dilemma
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Podcast
Fun Fact
Captain Hoff has had more careers than cats have lives, from electrical computer engineer to Hollywood TV exec, screenwriter, game designer and producer, manga rewriter, voice actor, animator, podcast host, author of five books, mobile entertainment studio head, serial entrepreneur, and venture investor.