611: Reid Hoffman | Surprising Entrepreneurial Truths
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and co-author of Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs.
What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman:- What Reid means when he calls himself a "six-person-or-less extrovert."
- Why fostering diversity is important for any company that wants to be relevant tomorrow.
- How to identify the five kinds of "no" and what they can each teach you.
- Why unanimous consent in a pitch meeting is a concerning sign.
- The best and worst ways to pitch ideas to venture capitalists.
- And much more...
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| 1:10.8 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 1:13.6 | Presuming that everything's going to be a year after year after year, you just have to look around to know that that's a mistake. |
| 1:21.6 | Networks are not just resilience making, but they're also amplifying. You can learn things. |
| 1:24.4 | There's this great other opportunity that I would just know about if I had some allies out there. |
| 1:30.4 | A lot of the reason why people frequently say don't network is because it sounds like you're trying to use people. |
| 1:34.4 | Hi, my name's Reed. Can I have your business card? |
| 1:36.4 | You're like, no, no, treated is a partnership. Treat it as a dance. Treat it as something where we help each other. We're human beings. We're doing this journey together. |
| 1:45.5 | Doesn't have that icky feel that people who describe themselves as networkers frequently have. |
| 1:54.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 1:56.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 2:01.0 | We have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game, astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, |
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