Strategy Session: How to stay inspired while remote? Why do you celebrate wins? Is there a co-founder advantage?
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Can a small entrepreneur make an impact within a massive, complex system, like healthcare or education? What's the best framework to amplify the positive side of having co-founders and avoid the negatives? Reid Hoffman and Bob Safian answer these and more questions from small business owners in the Masters of Scale community. Plus: in our Need to Know segment, Reid & Bob take on a burning question: How can Black founders beat the odds and find funding?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help |
| 0:08.5 | you better understand the world of business. |
| 0:11.2 | It's called HBR IdeaCast. |
| 0:14.2 | Each week, Harvard Business Review editors bring you the world's leading business and management |
| 0:18.5 | experts. |
| 0:19.5 | But it isn't just another business podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | We think you will find so many connections from IdeaCast to how we hear at Masters of |
| 0:26.6 | Scale think about scaling our business. |
| 0:29.8 | For instance, they often approach business challenges from contrarian points of view, |
| 0:33.8 | telling surprising stories like, what can we learn from NASA about managing high-risk |
| 0:38.9 | projects? |
| 0:40.4 | And what can a comedian teach us about using humor to lead a team? |
| 0:45.0 | Subscribe to HBR IdeaCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.2 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:51.5 | Hi everyone, it's Bob. |
| 0:54.2 | Today we're sharing our third in the series of live strategy sessions recorded this |
| 0:59.0 | past summer in front of a virtual audience of small business owners and Masters of Scale |
| 1:04.0 | members. |
| 1:05.0 | In these episodes, Reed Hoffman answers direct questions from entrepreneurs on how to |
| 1:10.2 | respond to the challenges their businesses are facing. |
| 1:13.5 | You'll hear Reed's in-depth analysis as well as a new game show that we're calling the |
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