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Masters of Scale

Reid Hoffman & Kickstarter’s Everette Taylor take your questions

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For our latest Strategy Session, Reid Hoffman and Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor answer questions from entrepreneurs about how to build more resilient businesses. They share frameworks for taking smarter risks, finding co-founders, and more.

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0:00.0

Real leaders don't back down when the stakes are high. They innovate. They push forward,

0:07.5

and then they take the stage at the Masters of Scale Summit.

0:11.6

Join us in San Francisco, October 7th to 9th to hear from the CEO of the New York Times,

0:17.1

scientists using cutting-edge technology to find cures, the leader of crypto powerhouse

0:22.0

coinbase, a retired four-star general, and many, many more.

0:26.7

Apply now at mastersofscale.com slash apply 25. That's masters ofscale.com slash apply 25.

0:36.9

Is your AI built for everyone, or is it built to work with your businesses' data?

0:42.6

IBM helps you integrate and govern unstructured data wherever it lives, so your business can

0:47.9

have more accurate AI instead of just more of it.

0:51.4

Get your data ready for AI at IBM.com, the AI Built for Business, IBM.

0:59.0

Hey folks, earlier this month, our very own Reid Hoffman was joined by Kickstarter CEO Everett

1:04.9

Taylor for a special strategy session event. Reed and Everett offered incredibly valuable insights to entrepreneurs asking their most

1:14.7

pressing questions.

1:16.5

We wanted you to hear especially what they had to say about boosting the resilience of your

1:21.3

business in these increasingly complicated times.

1:26.4

Masters of Scale strategy sessions are presented in partnership with a friends at Capital One

1:31.3

business. We hope you enjoy it.

1:37.0

You've got to have incredible talent at every position.

1:39.9

It's like this huge push.

1:41.6

There are fires burning when you're going home.

1:43.3

Can you believe it?

1:42.0

Such an idiot. And then you go back to, this is totally going to be amazing. There are so many easy ways. I'm supposed to know what to do. I have no idea what to do. Sorry, we made a mistake. But you have to time it right. Oops. Working out of a three-bed apartment. Stuff that just seems absolutely nutballs. Ten years later, we're like, well, that's just how you do it.

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