Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on LinkedIn and The Alliance

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🗓️ 4 August 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Reid Hoffman, co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn, and Ben Casnocha, former Chief-of-Staff of LinkedIn, talk to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about LinkedIn and their book The Alliance. Hoffman and Casnocha discuss the founding and vision of LinkedIn along with their ideas in The Alliance on how to improve employee/employer relations when turnover is high and loyalty on each side is low.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:23.1	going back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.2	Today is July 24th, 2014, and my guests are Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnoka.
0:38.4	Reid is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn.
0:41.2	Ben is Reid's former chief of staff.
0:43.6	Together with Chris Yeh, they are the authors of most recently the Alliance.
0:48.8	Managing talent in the network day.
0:50.7	Reid and Ben, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:52.9	Great to be here.
0:54.3	Let's start with the origins of LinkedIn.
0:57.0	What was the original concept?
0:58.1	It's surprisingly to me.
0:59.8	Maybe to you.
1:00.9	It's over 11 years old, correct?
1:03.0	So how did it start?
1:04.6	Well, not surprising given I lived it.
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