208: Reid Hoffman | Mastering Your Scale for the Unexpected Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 56 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 and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. This is part two of a two-part episode. Check out part one here!
What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman:- Why surviving a horrible childhood isn't a prerequisite for developing grit -- and what you can do to learn resilience.
- What it takes to gather the data points necessary for unpacking the secret subtext of indirect feedback.
- How we can steer into good crises to strengthen relationships and better our circumstances.
- What running Dungeons & Dragons and RuneQuest campaigns taught Reid about complex human motivations and the power of heroic collaboration.
- Aligning goals between employers and employees of any generation with Star Wars-inspired rotational, transformational, and foundational tours of duty.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:07.8 | Today we're back with part two of my interview with Reed Hoffman. He's the founder of LinkedIn, |
| 0:12.3 | investor at Greylock, and host of the podcast Masters of Scaling. People refer to Reed as the |
| 0:17.2 | Oracle of Silicon Valley. He can spot unicorns, companies that are just going to explode in value, |
| 0:22.0 | change the world, shape the way that we live. His advice is highly sought after and his companies |
| 0:27.6 | and ideas have really just changed the shape of investing and the tech sphere in general. |
| 0:32.2 | Now this was originally supposed to be an interview with Reed on the Jordan Harbinger show and |
| 0:36.3 | has evolved into a collaboration between our podcasts. We developed a commencement episode of |
| 0:41.4 | sorts for Reed's podcast Masters of Scale. And this special episode of the Jordan Harbinger show |
| 0:46.8 | brings together all the best life lessons from the last season on Masters of Scale that might be |
| 0:51.6 | useful for a grad, entrepreneur, or anyone navigating big decisions. A quick backgrounder on Masters |
| 0:57.6 | of Scale. In each episode, Reed sets out to prove it theory about how businesses grow from zero to a |
| 1:03.4 | gazillion. Theories like why you should let fires burn or why imperfect is perfect. And he does |
| 1:09.6 | this by talking to a famous founder about their lives. It's a business show, but it doesn't sound like |
| 1:14.7 | a business show. So what you'll hear today is both my interview with Reed Hoffman and also segments |
| 1:19.8 | from Masters of Scale where Reed interviews some truly amazing founders. In part one of this |
| 1:24.7 | episode you heard from Spotify's Daniel Eck, Instagram's Kevin Sisterum, and Marissa Mayer of |
| 1:29.9 | Google and Yahoo. Today we're back at it and kicking things off with someone from my hometown |
| 1:34.5 | of Detroit, Michigan. It's Stacey Brown Philpot, CEO of Taskrabbit. In this Masters of Scale clip, |
| 1:41.1 | Stacey talks about her first job and how it taught her grit. Pretty early in the game, let's have a listen. |
| 1:51.0 | I grew up on the West Side of Detroit. It wasn't the best neighborhood, it wasn't the worst |
| 1:55.5 | neighborhood, but people looked out for each other. Of course later on things got worse for a lot |
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