Need to Know, w/Reid & Bob: GameStop, SPACs, gov't stimulus, and vaccines
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
"The future is sooner and stranger than you think," Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in a frank, unfiltered conversation about the lessons of 2021 so far. "The rulebook will be changing month by month." The co-hosts dive into U.S. government stimulus efforts; GameStop, SPACs and potential froth in the investment markets; rising pressure on business leaders to engage on social and policy issues; and how vaccinations are impacting all of us. Plus: the 10-year anniversary of Reid's book "The Startup of You."
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Reed. |
| 0:01.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Massage of Scale, unfiltered. |
| 0:05.0 | A periodic dialogue between Reed Hoffman, the host of Massage of Scale, and me, the host |
| 0:10.3 | of Massage of Scale Rapid Response, about the most important business topics impacting |
| 0:15.0 | entrepreneurs right now. |
| 0:17.2 | So in doing these two podcast feeds together, we both get to talk to a variety of leaders. |
| 0:23.9 | We don't often get to share the insights that we're getting from each other, and we thought |
| 0:28.8 | it might be good for us to experiment with that, to talk about the things that we're picking |
| 0:33.6 | up, and to bounce around these ideas, have a fusion of our different perspectives. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, I thought you and I occasionally have this chance to catch up, and whenever we do it, |
| 0:43.7 | it's a lot of fun. |
| 0:44.7 | And we thought, hey, let's share the fun with everyone. |
| 0:46.8 | Like let's see what things that we're learning from Rapid Response, and the things we're |
| 0:50.4 | learning from the classic episodes and things that are timely in the news, or what is this |
| 0:55.0 | kind of entrepreneurial perspective, and we love our listeners, we love our community, |
| 0:59.2 | and we think that they would want to come along on this experimental journey with us. |
| 1:03.9 | And one of the things I also love about the idea of this is we don't always get enough |
| 1:09.2 | time to pause and reflect on what it all means together, and that's one of the things |
| 1:14.4 | I love talking with you about it is you help me put it in perspective. |
| 1:18.2 | I hope I help you put it in perspective, and hopefully helps our listeners too. |
| 1:22.3 | And in classic Masters of Scale, I'm certain we're going to be listening for feedback, |
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