According to David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Hoffman arranged the first meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's initial $500,000 angel investment in Facebook.
根据David Kirkpatrick所著的《Facebook效应》一书，霍夫曼安排了Mark Zukerberg与Peter Thiel的初次会面，由于这次会谈的结果使得Thiel决定向Facebook公司提供50万美金的天使投资。