Coming Soon: Masters of Scale

Masters of Scale

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Startups, Business, Mindset, Management, Bob Safian, Entrepreneurship, Diversity & Inclusion, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Berman

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Coming May 3rd, Reid Hoffman, legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, explains how famous founders take their companies from zero to a gazillion. In this trailer for Season One, a taste of this straight-from-Silicon Valley podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	It's 1998 at the height of the first calm boom.
0:04.8	Silicon Valley is on fire.
0:06.5	Nothing bad can happen.
0:08.5	My friend, Marym Nephisi, is CEO of a startup called Eve,
0:12.3	and she had to have the domain name Eve.com.
0:15.7	Only problem?
0:17.0	She has to convince the owner to sell it to her.
0:20.1	Hello, who is this?
0:21.3	There's a five-year-old girl, Eve Rogers.
0:23.7	So, she's Eve.
0:25.1	Who gets on the phone?
0:26.0	So, I think, what on earth am I going to say to this five-year-old?
0:28.3	So, I said, hello.
0:29.2	Hi.
0:29.8	Could I buy your domain names?
0:32.7	Hi, I'm Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock,
0:36.8	and host of a new podcast, Masters of Scale.
0:39.9	Through conversations with famous founders,
0:41.8	I'll show you what really goes on behind the scenes
0:44.2	as companies grow from zero to a gazillion.
0:46.8	At times, is a dogfight?
0:48.2	I was absolutely convinced that this would bankrupt the company.
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