Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always I'm here with producer Jason de Filippo.

Today we're doing something different here on the Jordan Harbinger show.

I originally wanted to interview Reed Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock,

and host of the podcast Masters of Scale.

People refer to Reed as the Oracle of Silicon Valley.

He's a unicorn spotter, someone who can seemingly see the future in terms of the companies

and ideas that will change and shape the world.

He's made him very successful and his advice is highly sought after and deeply respected.

As we get into the show, you'll see why.

When we first connected, what was to be an interview or a profile similar to what we usually

do here on the show quickly turned into a collaboration between our podcasts.

We developed a commencement episode of sorts for Reed's podcast Masters of Scale.

This special episode brings together all the best life lessons from the last season of

Masters of Scale that might be useful for a grad or anyone navigating big decisions.

It'll also be useful for entrepreneurs and business owners, of course.

Let me back up just a minute to tell you about Masters of Scale in case you don't listen.

In each episode, Reed sets out to prove a theory about how business is grown from zero

to a gazillion.

Things like why you should let fires burn or why imperfect is perfect.

And he does this by talking to famous founders about their lives.

It's a business show, but it doesn't sound like a business show.

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