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This Week in Startups

Reid Hoffman on the Joby Aviation SPAC, lessons from early Airbnb & Facebook bets, passing on Stripe & SpaceX, investment thesis & more | Angel S5 E6

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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1:07.9

Hey everybody, welcome back to Angel, the podcast I do alongside of this week in startups.

1:13.9

And we thought for our fifth season we would talk to what I call super angels.

1:18.2

People who have invested in dozens and dozens of startups had massive exits and to really

1:24.2

understand the business. And today we have just a Titan in our industry, somebody who

1:28.9

you know has built companies, invested in companies and even does a really great podcast

1:34.0

that all of you listen to a master of scale. You probably know him best from his time at Apple

1:38.2

or Fujitsu or social net. I kid those were his jobs that led up to the incredible LinkedIn.

1:45.2

And co-founding LinkedIn in I think 2003 hasn't been on the pod for about seven or eight years.

1:51.8

I think the last time you officially came on the pod was what, 2014 or something.

1:57.4

Yeah, we did it at LinkedIn. I remember it was fun.

2:00.5

Did it LinkedIn in the conference room and you've become a podcaster but you also did a lot of

2:05.4

angel investing. And now how do you spend your time now? You're still on the board of Microsoft?

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