Podcast Episodes featuring Reid Hoffman
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Reid Hoffman | Calculating Risk: Evaluating, Mitigating, and Leveraging Risks During Covid
Greymatter - July 30, 2020 20:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsToday’s entrepreneurs find themselves falling from the cliff and assembling a plane with tools that are on fire while being attacked by a swarm of murder hornets. Yet despite the increased risks, entrepreneurs are still taking those leaps of faith, for which we should all be grateful. Greylock ...
Reid Hoffman | M&A or IPO?
Greymatter - July 23, 2020 17:01 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsReid Hoffman shares his perspective on the fundamental choice that all venture-backed entrepreneurs face simple: M&A or IPO? Fortunately, there is one approach that allows you to build to go public AND to sell. You can read the essay based on this interview here: https://greylock.com/greymatter/r...
Reid Hoffman | Entrepreneurship Now
Greymatter - July 09, 2020 16:56 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThe Covid-19 pandemic has changed the environment for entrepreneurship. In many ways, entrepreneurship has become more challenging; in a few ways, and for a few people, it has become easier. For all of us among the broader society, it has become more important. The pandemic has shown us the harsh...
Reid Hoffman | Building Companies in Times of Change
Greymatter - July 02, 2020 15:34 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsReid Hoffman offers advice for the Class of startups in 2020. While there is a tendency for pundits to say that everything has changed, and that we’re in a new world, Reid posits that more is actually the same than different. Converting challenge into opportunity is a normal part of the entrepren...
Reid Hoffman | Honoring the Alliance During Covid
Greymatter - June 25, 2020 16:58 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsIn 2014, Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman co-authored The Alliance with Chris Yeh and Ben Casnocha. The book argued that in the modern economy, the key to a stronger, healthier, longer-lasting employee relationship was to be honest about the temporary nature of nearly every job. Much like ne...
Reid Hoffman | Blitzscaling During Covid
Greymatter - June 18, 2020 16:48 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode of Greymatter is part of a series of conversations between Blitzscaling co-authors Reid Hoffman (who is also a general partner at Greylock) and Chris Yeh. While the disruption and turbulence associated with the Covid-19 pandemic is broadly negative and unpredictable, it does open up ...
Reid Hoffman | Transformational Moments: Learning from Jeff Weiner
Greymatter - June 11, 2020 15:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsIn May 2020, Jeff Weiner stepped down as CEO of LinkedIn after 11 amazing years. In this episode of Greymatter, Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman shares his favorite memories and most valuable lessons learned from working with Jeff.
Reid Hoffman on Planning for Volatility
Greymatter - June 09, 2020 15:39 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode of Greymatter features a portion of a virtual town hall held in May with Greylock general partner and LinkedIn co-Founder Reid Hoffman, moderated by general partner David Thacker. Portfolio company founders joined the session to hear Reid’s assessment of the current economic, politic...
Reid Hoffman | Planning for Volatility
Greymatter - June 09, 2020 15:39 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode of Greymatter features a portion of a virtual town hall held in May with Greylock general partner and LinkedIn co-Founder Reid Hoffman, moderated by general partner David Thacker. Portfolio company founders joined the session to hear Reid’s assessment of the current economic, politic...
Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
Conversations with Tyler - January 15, 2020 12:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsWhen Reid Hoffman creates a handle for some new network or system, his usual choice is “Quixotic.” At an early age, his love of tabletop games inspired him to think of life as a heroic journey, where people come together in order to accomplish lofty things. This framing also prompted him to co...
Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
Conversations with Tyler - January 15, 2020 12:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsWhen Reid Hoffman creates a handle for some new network or system, his usual choice is “Quixotic.” At an early age, his love of tabletop games inspired him to think of life as a heroic journey, where people come together in order to accomplish lofty things. This framing also prompted him to con...
Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons w/ Reid Hoffman Wences Casares
Greymatter - December 12, 2019 15:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsGreylock Partner Reid Hoffman, and Wences Casares, Greylock portfolio company CEO and founder of Xapo, are back for their second conversation. This time to discuss how blitzscaling works when you’re not in Silicon Valley or China. In this episode of Greymatter, Wences and Reid talk about some of...
Argentina Entrepreneurship, Endeavor, and Global Lessons w/ Wences Casares and Reid Hoffman
Greymatter - December 06, 2019 14:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsGreylock Partner Reid Hoffman, and Wences Casares, Greylock portfolio company CEO and founder of Xapo, discuss what diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems like Argentina can teach Silicon Valley. This episode of Greymatter digs into how assumptions about the world that hold true in America don’t in...
Greymatter Blitzscaling | People with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
Greymatter - July 25, 2019 15:24 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode in the Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series, with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, provides an overview of some of the main people issues you might encounter when blitzscaling. Indeed, while many of the articles in the popular press that mention blitzscaling focus on the financial capi...
Greymatter Blitzscaling | Going Global with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
Greymatter - July 18, 2019 14:31 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode in the Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series, with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, digs deep into the question of globalization. When should an entrepreneur start to think about globalization? When is globalization a good idea, and when is it a bad idea? And when should a company first ...
Blitzscaling Strategy: Making Key Decisions with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh | Greymatter
Greymatter - July 11, 2019 15:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode in the Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series, with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, takes you deep inside the mind of Reid Hoffman. You’ll learn his frameworks for making key decisions, and hear about how he developed and applied them at PayPal and LinkedIn. The key decisions entrepren...
Blitzscaling Strategy: Major Threats with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh | Greymatter
Greymatter - June 27, 2019 12:56 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode in the Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series, with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, focuses on the major threats that blitzscalers need to watch out for as they scale. Like a whack-a-mole game, new threats are constantly popping up to keep entrepreneurs busy! Fortunately, this episode of...
Blitzscaling | Competitive Strategy with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh | Greymatter
Greymatter - June 20, 2019 17:16 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsThis episode in our Greymatter Blitzscaling capsule series, with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, focuses on the topic of competitive strategy. In an ideal world, you won't have any competition. But the world is far from ideal. How should a blitzscaling company think about and respond to the competiti...
Blitzscaling From Startup to Scaleup with Reid Hoffman & Josh McFarland | Greymatter
Greymatter - June 18, 2019 14:51 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsGreylock’s Reid Hoffman and Josh McFarland on the basic principles for successful blitzscaling. Blitzscaling is a set of practices for igniting rapid growth to accelerate to the stage in a startup’s life cycle where the most value is created. Bitzscaling prioritizes speed over efficiency in an ...
The Strategy Of Blitzscaling with Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh | Greymatter
Greymatter - June 11, 2019 13:19 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsGreylock Partner Reid Hoffman and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh on defining and developing a competitive strategy. Blitzscaling is how startups become enduring, category-defining businesses at lightning-fast speed. This strategy utilizes a set of techniques to grow, raise financing, and qui...
Safely Scaling Artificial General Intelligence with Reid Hoffman & Sam AltmanI | Greymatter
Greymatter - June 06, 2019 16:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsGreylock Partner Reid Hoffman and OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on the transformative potential of AGI. The AI revolution has only just begun. Over the next several decades, numerous industries will continue to see significant transformations as a result of advanced AI research and applic...
Can The Current AI Boom Scale To AGI? Reid Hoffman & Open AI's Greg Brockman | Greymatter
Greymatter - May 30, 2019 17:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsFrom the 2019 Startup Grind Conference, Greylock's Reid Hoffman and OpenAI Co-Founder and CTO Greg Brockman on the prospects of building beneficial AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). AI systems have achieved impressive capabilities that may one day reach human levels of intelligence. Autonom...
Speed: The Most Critical Competitive Advantage with Reid Hoffman | Greymatter
Greymatter - May 15, 2019 16:21 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratingsFrom the 2019 SFELC Summit, Greylock's Sarah Guo and Reid Hoffman on blitzscaling massively valuable companies. Getting to scale is a competitive and enduring advantage. Blitzscaling is how companies achieve this massive scale at incredible speed. This strategy utilizes a set of techniques to ...
Renovating Democracy with Nicolas Berggruen, Reid Hoffman and Nathan Gardels
Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - May 15, 2019 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 273 ratingsAcross the globe, democratic governance is under assault. The rise of populism in the West, and the rise of China in the East, have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they failed their citizens by not addressing the dislocation of globalization and the rapid disruption of...
Reid Hoffman Interview with Mark Suster | Upfront Summit 2019
Upfront Ventures - February 20, 2019 21:01 - 32 minutes ★★★ - 11 ratingsReid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock, sits down with Mark Suster to discuss his book Blitzscaling and the state of technology and venture capital.
TIP229: Billionaire Reid Hoffman Lessons Learned (Business Podcast)
We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network - February 10, 2019 05:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsOn today's show, we learn valuable lessons from Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: What is the secret to the success of Silicon Valley? How to manage a company that is growing at 2.5% - per day. How to use your network to find new job opportunities. Why fi...
LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman on Building a Billion-Dollar Business at Lightning Speed
Intelligence Squared - December 14, 2018 00:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsSome of the world’s most successful and powerful companies began as tiny startups and became global giants within only a few years. The list is long and includes world-changing companies like Amazon, Google, Airbnb, Facebook, Uber and Alibaba. But what are the secrets to these startups' extraordi...
The Strategy of Blitzscaling with Chris Yeh (Co-Author with Reid Hoffman)
The Gartner Talent Angle - December 12, 2018 19:22 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 131 ratingsThe world is changing faster and faster and the only way to thrive is to accept the inevitability of change. Blitzscaling is all about rapidly growing and scaling a business or product in the face of uncertainty. Listen to Chris Yeh discuss the techniques that digital companies like Google, Link...
Blitzscaling with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella & Greylock's Reid Hoffman | Greymatter
Greymatter - November 13, 2018 17:43 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 118 ratingsMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella and Greylock Partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman share lessons learned from scaling Microsoft, LinkedIn and PayPal. Blitzscaling is the strategy that leading entrepreneurs have implemented to build strong, enduring companies. The techniques allow for startup...
Blitzscaling with Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger - November 08, 2018 08:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsThis year we’ve had some pretty impressive CEOs and entrepreneurs on the show. It continues today with Reid Hoffman. If you don’t know the name, you definitely know some of the products he was behind. How about PayPal or LinkedIn? Today we’re joined by Hoffman and Chris Yeh, co-authors of the ne...
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Twitter mentions
@reidhoffman was mentioned in Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI
Conversations with Tyler
@reidhoffman was mentioned in Robots Are Coming! with Reid Hoffman 04/05/23
Squawk Pod
@reidhoffman was mentioned in Facebook, at a Crossroads: Early Investor Reid Hoffman
Squawk Pod
@reidhoffman was mentioned in 20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
@reidhoffman was mentioned in Jason Crawford (The Roots of Progress)
Todd Nief's Show
@reidhoffman was mentioned in Files Find You
Sync Up by Microsoft 365
@reidhoffman was mentioned in #61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale
Y Combinator
