Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Live Life in Permanent Beta

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Serial entrepreneur and investor Reid Hoffman encourages individuals to become the entrepreneurs of their own lives. Hoffman shares the importance of taking intelligent risks, building thoughtful networks and continually adapting your skills to navigate a fulfilling career path.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	.
0:18.0	Reed Hoffman is an icon in the valley, if not the world.
0:21.6	But something you might not know.
0:24.6	He actually was sitting in your seats just a few years ago.
0:27.6	He got his degree in symbolic systems at Stanford.
0:30.6	And since then he's done remarkable things.
0:33.6	He was an executive at PayPal, co-founder of LinkedIn,
0:39.2	a very active angel investor, and a partner at Greylock.
0:43.6	Without further ado, Lee.
0:45.4	Thank you.
0:50.8	Before I started, I thought I would make three remarks.
0:58.0	One of them is, this is a little intimidating because one of my professors and advisors
1:07.0	who taught me a lot when I was here sitting in the audience and giving a talk in front of him is going to be, okay, this is the first.
1:15.2	That's Terry who's sitting over there in case people don't know.
1:17.5	Terry Winnigrad.
1:20.3	The second is I decided to experiment with this format a little bit,
1:25.6	and I've actually done something which I don't normally do,
1:29.3	which has I actually wrote out a talk,
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