207: Reid Hoffman | Mastering Your Scale for the Unexpected Part One
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a cofounder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and coauthor of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies.
What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman:- Why creating the best products and services on the market won't mean squat if you don't have the network to get the word out about them.
- Reid's flexible planning framework that adjusts navigation to suit the unexpected path rather than the imagined destination.
- How to know when you're informing your intuition with the best available data or just procrastinating to avoid making important decisions.
- Why "never give up" is terrible advice, and how to separate your winning instincts from your losing ideas.
- Why an honest partner is almost always your best source of ideas -- and a reminder of where the road paved with the best intentions usually leads.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.5 | As always I'm here with producer Jason de Filippo. |
| 0:08.0 | Today we're doing something different here on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:11.2 | I originally wanted to interview Reed Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock, |
| 0:15.8 | and host of the podcast Masters of Scale. |
| 0:18.4 | People refer to Reed as the Oracle of Silicon Valley. |
| 0:21.8 | He's a unicorn spotter, someone who can seemingly see the future in terms of the companies |
| 0:26.2 | and ideas that will change and shape the world. |
| 0:29.0 | He's made him very successful and his advice is highly sought after and deeply respected. |
| 0:34.1 | As we get into the show, you'll see why. |
| 0:36.6 | When we first connected, what was to be an interview or a profile similar to what we usually |
| 0:40.7 | do here on the show quickly turned into a collaboration between our podcasts. |
| 0:45.6 | We developed a commencement episode of sorts for Reed's podcast Masters of Scale. |
| 0:50.6 | This special episode brings together all the best life lessons from the last season of |
| 0:54.1 | Masters of Scale that might be useful for a grad or anyone navigating big decisions. |
| 0:59.2 | It'll also be useful for entrepreneurs and business owners, of course. |
| 1:02.4 | Let me back up just a minute to tell you about Masters of Scale in case you don't listen. |
| 1:06.5 | In each episode, Reed sets out to prove a theory about how business is grown from zero |
| 1:11.2 | to a gazillion. |
| 1:12.6 | Things like why you should let fires burn or why imperfect is perfect. |
| 1:16.8 | And he does this by talking to famous founders about their lives. |
| 1:20.1 | It's a business show, but it doesn't sound like a business show. |
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