BIG INTV: Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’
Uncanny Valley | WIRED
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4.1 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The LinkedIn cofounder and frequent Trump target, Reid Hoffman has a simple message for his peers: “Just speak up about the things that you think are true.”
Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wired's big interview. I'm Katie Drummond. |
| 0:07.4 | LinkedIn. It's the site everyone loves to hate, but it has stood the test of time as indispensable. |
| 0:14.5 | LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has his own Midas touch, and it's turned him from a startup guy to a pundit. |
| 0:20.8 | A podcast host, author, VC, and the list goes on. |
| 0:24.4 | Reid is clearly not afraid of multitasking, but something he's even less afraid of, AI. |
| 0:29.7 | I think it's safe to say that Reid Hoffman is an AI evangelist who wants us to calm down already. |
| 0:35.8 | As his latest book, Super Agency says, |
| 0:38.1 | technology is nothing without the people behind it. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm not sure I feel better yet, but maybe you do. |
| 0:44.3 | Here's our conversation. |
| 0:48.3 | Reid Hoffman, welcome to the big interview. |
| 0:50.5 | So glad to have you here. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm glad to be here, and happy holidays. Happy holidays. |
| 0:55.6 | Listeners will be hearing this episode in January, but just to give you a little bit of |
| 0:59.5 | context, we are talking. In late December, I have three days of work left and it's Yolo all the |
| 1:06.5 | way. I'm very excited. It's been a very long year. Reed, I'm sure you can agree. Yes. I think most of the world can agree. I think most of the world is very tired. But let's warm ourselves up. We like to start these conversations with some very fast questions. Little warm up. Are you ready? Great. Okay. Voice memo or text message? |
| 1:29.2 | Text message. |
| 1:31.9 | Cooperative games or competitive games? |
| 1:33.1 | Cooperative games. |
| 1:36.3 | The biggest difference between you and Elon Musk? |
| 1:37.9 | Huh. |
| 1:40.8 | Um, sanity? |
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