Auren Hoffman

COMMUNITY AND CONVERSATION: Auren Hoffman, one of a hardy group of entrepreneurs who labored on amid the dot-com rubble earlier this decade, says Founders Brunch sprang from the Internets resurgence. The founder of San Francisco Internet company RapLeaf Inc., which tracks peoples reputations online and offline, and a small group of fellow entrepreneurs decided to create a community to welcome executives of new Internet start-ups.

Jakub Mosur / For The Times / January 13, 2008

COMMUNITY AND CONVERSATION: Auren Hoffman, one of a hardy group of entrepreneurs who labored on amid the dot-com rubble earlier this decade, says Founders Brunch sprang from the Internets resurgence. The founder of San Francisco Internet company RapLeaf Inc., which tracks peoples reputations online and offline, and a small group of fellow entrepreneurs decided to create a community to welcome executives of new Internet start-ups.

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