Recode Decode: How Reid Hoffman would fix social media (Live)

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a general partner at Greylock Partners, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the Anti-Defamation League conference "Never Is Now" in San Francisco. Hoffman says the people who work at social media giants like Facebook and Twitter want to do the right thing when it comes to abuse or political attacks on their platforms, but they often move too slowly. He proposes that these companies should regularly report how they're trying to encourage "compassion, interaction [and] mutual understanding." Plus: How Reddit CEO Steve Huffman convinced him anonymity could be good and why VR might help create empathy in a corporate context. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is sponsored by GoCD, a continuous delivery server built by ThoughtWorks.
0:05.6	GoCD helps your team release software more frequently, consistently and reliably.
0:09.8	Download and use GoCD for free.
0:12.6	Visit gocd.org slash recode.
0:15.9	This show is sponsored by Qualcomm, their part of the daily lives of billions of people around the world.
0:22.6	They may not be the name you think of when you think of smartphones,
0:25.6	but they invented all the stuff smartphones rely on to be so smart.
0:29.6	Essentially Qualcomm is why you love your smartphone.
0:32.6	Learn more at Qualcomm.com slash WeInvent.
0:39.2	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:46.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:49.1	You may know me as the author of a sequel to Read Hoffman's Decency Pledge,
0:53.2	which I call the Try Not to Be Awful for like one day dudes pledge.
0:57.3	But in my spare time, I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode,
1:00.6	a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas,
1:03.2	and how they're changing the world we live in.
1:05.0	You find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts,
1:07.6	Spotify, Google Play Music, or wherever you listen to your podcasts,
1:10.8	or just visit recode.net slash podcast.
1:13.8	Today, we're going to play an interview I conducted with Read Hoffman,
1:16.3	the co-founder of LinkedIn and general partner at Greylock Partners.
1:19.7	He also hosts his own podcast, Masters of Scale.
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