What Dungeons & Dragons can teach entrepreneurs, with Reid Hoffman and Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop role-playing game, turns 50 this year. As a lifelong lover of the game, host Reid Hoffman asked fellow D&D player and Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks to join him for a conversation about the entrepreneurial lessons they each learned from the game, how Hasbro is scaling the legacy brand to new heights, and the ways technology is unlocking new levels of creative and business opportunities.

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0:26.9	Hey folks, Jeff Berman here, co-host of Masters of Scale.
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1:02.9	I would say it's fantasy improv.
1:07.2	Really, when it's played at its finest, it's a bunch of people getting together in a fantasy setting,
1:12.9	giving themselves permission to tell a story with each other
1:15.6	and be a little silly and has some laughs.
1:18.8	And, you know, there's some dice rolls and some rules thrown in in between.
1:23.6	It was a long and winding journey for Chris Cox
1:26.8	to go from being a kid in the 80s,
1:29.1	obsessed with the tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons, to the CEO of its parent company, Hasbro.
1:35.8	Before we dive into how Dungeons and Dragons taught Chris and me, valuable entrepreneurial lessons as kids,
1:43.1	let's make sure everyone knows how to play.
1:46.2	The dungeon master is your master of ceremonies.
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