Reid Hoffman: Build A World-Changing Business
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Reid Hoffman is one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs and investors of all time, first serving as the COO of PayPal then founding LinkedIn which was sold to Microsoft - where he is now on the board - for $26 billion. As a VC partner at Greylock he’s invested in countless other top companies including Airbnb, Flickr, Digg and CreativeLive among many others. He’s also the author of the brilliant book “The Alliance,” works with several non-profits like Kiva, Open AI and Quest Bridge and hosts the incredible new podcast “Masters Of Scale” which has welcomed guests like Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky and Reed Hastings.
Today on the podcast,
* Reid shares some context on why he's so excited about Masters Of Scale
* We talk about our shared background in philosophy and why it’s been such a valuable tool for us
* He gets into some of the classic mistakes he’s seen leaders make, specifically the idea that as the company grows, the game you’re playing also changes
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Chase Jarvis, and it's my job to welcome me to another episode of the Chase Jarvis |
| 0:10.1 | live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:12.6 | God, I love this. |
| 0:13.9 | You know the show. |
| 0:14.7 | This is where I sit down with the world's top creators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, |
| 0:18.4 | and do everything in my power to unlock actionable insights with the goal of helping you live your dreams and career and hobby and life. |
| 0:27.8 | My guest today is going to blow you away. His name is Mr. Reed Hoffman. |
| 0:33.6 | You guys know that I use the term legend rarely in speech because I don't take that kind of stuff lightly. |
| 0:39.3 | But in Reed's case, there is basically no more appropriate word for him. |
| 0:43.8 | He is the true definition of a legend, one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs and investors of all time. |
| 0:52.2 | He first served, well, he had a life before this job, but one of the ways where he really |
| 0:57.8 | hit the big time was as the C-O, the chief operating officer of PayPal, part of the quote |
| 1:03.2 | PayPal Mafia, him, Peter Thiel, Alon Musk, some folks that got started early there at PayPal. |
| 1:10.2 | And then he went on to found LinkedIn, which completely redefined the concept of a professional social network. |
| 1:18.6 | Ultimately, that was sold to Microsoft for $26 billion with a B dollars. |
| 1:24.7 | And he's now on the board at Microsoft. |
| 1:28.2 | As a venture partner, he's at a partner at Greylock, which is one of the top firms in the world. |
| 1:34.6 | Full disclosure, it's actually an investor in Creative Live as well. |
| 1:37.9 | That's one of the ways that I became friends with Reed through this process. |
| 1:41.0 | We've been with them for, gosh, for five years now. |
| 1:44.1 | And he has invested in |
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