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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

LinkedIn Co-Founder Opens Up on AI Job Loss w/ Reid Hoffman, Dave, Salim, and AWG | EP #194

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Download this week's deck: http://diamandis.com/wtf  Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Grab dinner with MOONSHOT listeners: https://moonshots.dnnr.io/  Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified, focused on AI and complex systems. Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur, investor, and LinkedIn co-founder focused on AI and human progress. – My companies: Reverse the age of my skin using the same cream at https://qr.diamandis.com/oneskinpod   Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding   – Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim’s Workshop to build your ExO: https://openexo.com/10x-shift?video=PeterD062625 Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Connect with Reid X LinkedIn Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on September 11th, 2025 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

entry-level job loss. You made some pretty, I think, sharp comments on this conversation.

0:05.4

How do you think about this? Job transformations, they are coming.

0:09.2

Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of LinkedIn. Co-founder of Inflection AI, a partner at Greylock.

0:15.2

His new book is Super Agency. What could possibly go right with our AI future?

0:20.3

Please welcome, Reid Hoffman.

0:21.8

It is definitely the case that AI will lead to a lot of different job transformation, in some

0:26.8

cases, flat out job loss, but also I think we will adapt perfectly fine. The career of the future

0:33.0

is entrepreneurship. It is how do you use these tools to create value in the world?

0:37.2

The entry-level job of two years from now will be very different than the entry-level job today.

0:42.0

I think if you look at the Industrial Revolution, you know, the net effect is always more job

0:46.5

creation in the long run. The problem is the timeline is so short. It's happening much

0:50.4

faster than just the raw job displacement you would expect. We all need to think much more entrepreneurily.

0:56.7

And here are some lessons of entrepreneurship.

0:59.0

And here's how to think about them.

1:02.2

Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:07.3

Everybody, welcome to another episode of WTF just happened in tech this is the news that's important

1:13.4

for you to learn if you want to change and transform your life your company your industry

1:17.2

this is the news that's about hopefully an optimistic vision of the future not about sort of

1:22.3

dystopian views it's about hopefully real views, things that you can use.

1:33.3

I'm here today with a moonshot mates, Dave Blundon, Alex Weizner Gross, and Selim Ismail,

1:38.6

and the special guest, a friend now for, I don't know, probably at least 20-plus years.

1:47.1

Reid Hoffman, you know, Reed as the creator of LinkedIn, many companies on the board of Microsoft outspoken about this tech field. And I'm excited to get Reid's input on a lot of the topics we're going to be

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