Reid Hoffman on OpenAI’s $7 trillion plan, Apple’s Vision Pro, and AI traps
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Will OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool Sora revolutionize content creation? In this episode of Need to Know, Reid Hoffman joins Bob Safian to discuss Sam Altman’s fundraising, Meta’s dramatic resurgence, and three catalysts driving the recent tech layoffs. In this rapidly evolving world, Reid makes a case for how AI is redefining the game of scale, and why entrepreneurs shouldn’t buy into the myth of a “right moment” to engage with a new opportunity or challenge.
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| 1:15.0 | Hey everyone, Bob Z Safian here. |
| 1:24.3 | Every few months I connect with Reed Hoffman to get his perspective on the key inflection |
| 1:29.9 | points in the business world. |
| 1:32.1 | Our most recent conversation which we're sharing today |
| 1:35.0 | starts with open AI's new text video tool SORA and why open AI CEO Sam Altman is |
| 1:42.4 | trying to raise $7 trillion. That's trillion with a T. |
| 1:47.3 | We also talk about Meta's Dramatic Resurgents, the Apple Vision Pro, three things driving tech layoffs, the AI trapped that many businesses are falling into and more. |
| 1:58.0 | As always, Reed's Insights both anchor me and get my wheels turning. I hope they do the same for you. Let's get to be. We'll start the show in a moment afterward from a Premier Brand Partner, Capital One Business. Georgian food is to Russia, like Mexican food is to the United States. |
| 2:38.0 | It's comfort food. |
| 2:40.0 | Georgian wine was also the best wine, but the Russians had embargoed it and so I vowed that if |
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