Strategy Session: When to replace the founder, how to be a learn-it-all, when to take the "venture bet," w/questions from Endeavor Outliers and co-host Bob Safian, editor-at-large
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Growth vs. innovation, scale vs. stability, founders vs, CEOs? Entrepreneurs want to know! In this month's Strategy Session, high-performing scale-ups from around the world ask Reid their most urgent strategic questions. This episode features Endeavor's "Outliers" – the fastest-growing, highest-performing entrepreneurs from this global incubator. They want to know: What do they do next?
Co-hosted by Bob Safian, the host of our sister podcast, Masters of Scale: Rapid Response, and the former editor-in-chief at Fast Company magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | You've got to have incredible talent at every position. |
| 0:07.0 | It's like this is a huge push. |
| 0:08.0 | There are fires burning when you're going home. |
| 0:10.0 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:11.0 | It's such an idiot. |
| 0:12.0 | And then you go back to this is totally going to be amazing. |
| 0:15.0 | There are so many easy ways. |
| 0:17.0 | So, so, so I have no idea what to do. |
| 0:19.0 | Sorry, we made a mistake. |
| 0:20.0 | But you have to time it right. |
| 0:22.0 | It's working out with a three-bedroom apartment. |
| 0:24.0 | So, it just seems absolutely nothing. |
| 0:26.0 | 10 years later, what will that just say to do it? |
| 0:29.0 | We haven't made it just how you do it. |
| 0:34.0 | This is Master's of Scale. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock and your host. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to our third strategy session, |
| 0:47.0 | where we partner with the community of entrepreneurs |
| 0:50.0 | to hear the questions that are keeping them up at night. |
| 0:53.0 | Our entrepreneurs on today's show are all part of Endeavor, |
| 0:57.0 | an organization that helps create startup ecosystems around the world. |
| 1:01.0 | This has actually been something of an Endeavor month on Master's of Scale. |
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