Reid Hoffman
52 statements across 15 episodes · 23 bullish · 9 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2016 by Richard Hanson · said 112 times in 55 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (50), Lee Hower (8), Tomer Cohen (7), Elad Gil (4), Richard Hanson (3), Quentin Clark (3), Emilie Choi (3), David Sze (3)
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 23 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 18 mentions in 3 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
- 20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
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2020 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- 20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
- 20VC: Lessons from Investing in Uber and Airbnb, How To Think Through Bundling vs Unbundling, Late Stage Funds Moving Earlier, Early Stage Funds Moving Later& The Mechanics of Venture That Founders Should Know with Derek Zanutto, General Partner @ Capital
- 20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
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2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC Exclusive: Roy Bahat on Bloomberg Beta's New Fund, The Truth About Valuation That Very Few VCs Will Tell You & Why Founders of Venture Backed Startups Make The Best Angels
- 20VC: Cameo's Steven Galanis on Why You Must Fall In Love With Your Mission Not Your Product, How To Extract As Much Value From Your Investor Base As Possible & Should You Really Hire For 6 Months Ahead of What You Need?
- 20VC: Why Every Company Looks One Round Earlier Than It Should Be, Why Investors Don't Understand Term Sheet Psyche & How The Brand Behind The Investor Can Overweight The Attention Their Opinion Is Given with Assaf Wand, Founder & CEO @ Hippo
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2018 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: Benchmark's Sarah Tavel on Why Investing Success Lies In Small Markets Adjacent To Very Large Ones, Why You Have To Be Judicious On When To Pay Up vs Be More Price Sensitive & Why Crypto Investing Is Like The Early Days of AdTech Investing
- 20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
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2017 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: VC of The Year: Forerunner's Kirsten Green on 2 $Bn+ Exits in 1 Year, Why We Are In The Very Early Innings For Commerce & How Brand Has Fundamentally Changed Over The Last Decade
- 20VC: Preparing For The Next Big Trend, Why Conversational Will Be The Next Big Thing & How Entrepreneurs Should View Market Size with Sarah Guo @ Greylock Partners
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen
- 20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- 20VC: Greylock's Josh Elman on Why We Are Not In A Consumer Downturn, The Next Wave Of Social and What Twitter Should Do Next
- 20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
- Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- 20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- 20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock
- every mention in 2015, scene by scene →
Everything said about Reid Hoffman, oldest first
Jan 1, 2016 positive
Hiring Screen Uses Reid Hoffman's 'Tour of Duty' Framework for Product
“I think it's a very refreshing take on things, and some of the principles that they talk about in that book, like the tour of duty concept of employment, those are some of the principles that we actually have underpinning hiring screens development as a produc…”
Jan 1, 2016 positive
Hanson: Reid Hoffman stepping down as LinkedIn CEO was smart and selfless
“I did promise that I'd divert everybody to Founders Friday episode two for more on that but my serious answer is going to be Reid Hoffman and I know I mentioned him before with the Alliance, but I think in terms of a founder who, one of the things I really adm…”
Feb 8, 2016 positive
Aug 12, 2016 positive
Nash: Reid Hoffman's handover to Jeff Weiner is the model CEO transition
“You know, Reid Hoffman, who I'm very close with is obviously the founder and has been the person guiding LinkedIn since the get-go, but the way that he brought Jeff Wiener on board and kind of empowered him to run that company I think is a model for how those …”
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 positive
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman bought the Six Degrees patent in 2003
“Recognizing the importance of social networking, in 2003, Mark teamed up with his friend, Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, to purchase the fundamental six degrees patent, which broadly covers social networks, in order to keep it out of the hands of paten…”
Aug 24, 2020 negative
Sahil Lavingia says Reid Hoffman's early launch advice is outdated
“Yeah, I think Reid's quote was accurate maybe 10 years ago when he probably said something like that, but the truth is the bar for where your product needs to be today is so much higher, and yes, you should be embarrassed because I think the best founders will…”
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Dec 7, 2020
Media creation like podcasting is a real form of leadership
“When you're doing content production like podcasts, And kind of areas like that, You are actually, in fact, creating a form of leadership, because it's like, well, here are things to pay attention to. Here are things to learn from. Here are ideas or patterns o…”
Dec 7, 2020
Dec 7, 2020
Dec 7, 2020 bearish
Dec 7, 2020
Every mega consumer internet giant defines its own unique pattern
“Each of the consumer internet giants at size is its own unique pattern, right? You don't go, I'm going to build another big consumer internet business, and it's going to be like Airbnb. It's like, no, Airbnb is the pattern like itself.”
Dec 7, 2020 negative
Reid Hoffman passed on Stripe over valuation and regulatory payments risk
“Having been, you know, part of the five-person executive team at PayPal through its, you know, dogfight Existence of survival or death. I knew all the landmines in the payment industry. So they came to me and said, hey, we've got this deal, which is, you know,…”
Dec 7, 2020 neutral
Dec 7, 2020
Angel investing is like friendship; venture capital is financial marriage
“An angel is kind of the equivalent of investing as a friend. They're not nearly as invested. They're not, as it were, like married to the project. They put money in lots of different bets, even when they're, they can be very helpful and helpful, and they're no…”
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Reid Hoffman ranks Stripe's Collison brothers alongside Airbnb's Brian Chesky
“Now, they're spectacular. They're literally, like, they are in the set, you know, along with, you know, the entrepreneurs that, you know, I've invested in, you know, the Brian Cheskis and the Chris Hermsons, the entrepreneurs that I learned from, they are magn…”
Dec 7, 2020
Hoffman discloses confidential portfolio info to select partners to maintain trust
“And so, for example, some of the things that I do within kind of the venture partnership is I will sometimes say, okay, because by the way, you always have to second guess yourself on these things. I go, all right, this is something that's super secret that th…”
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Apr 19, 2021 positive
Sze: Bonding with Reid Hoffman in China led to LinkedIn investment
“We sat at the back of the bus each time on every stop on this tour through China, and we just mind melded. It was great. We got along so well. We were fast friends, and that led to the investment in LinkedIn and me inviting him to come to Greylock”
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Choi: Lateral career moves can trigger exponential career growth
“Sometimes you'll have a situation where you're taking on a lateral move, but if you take on that lateral move and you crush it, you could kind of take things exponentially higher than you would have if you had just been kind of slow and steady up and to the ri…”
May 27, 2023 positive
Sep 27, 2023 neutral
Oct 2, 2023
Nov 27, 2023 negative
Rabois: LinkedIn developed a mediocre culture because early engineers wanted 35-hour weeks
“Yeah, we didn't have an Olympic work ethic. We had a bunch of French engineers that wanted to work 35 hours a week. At the time, In 2003 to five, when the company was really founded, most people thought the internet was dead, so we didn't, Reid Hoffman, who fo…”
Jun 10, 2024 negative
Hoffman Passed on Elon Musk's Early Pitch to Send Turtles to Mars
“So I think I was one of the first couple people that, that Elon Musk pitched SpaceX to. And I literally kind of laughed at him, thinking, because, by the way, to my defense, his pitch was, I'm going to be the first person to send life to Mars because I'm going…”
Jun 10, 2024 bullish
Jun 10, 2024 bearish
Jun 10, 2024
Peter Thiel's Greatest Weakness Is Assuming His Way Is the Only Way
“Oh look, super smart. I'd say his biggest strength Is a willingness to be contrarian based on first principles and an absolute, like, maximization of speed. Right? Like, can we have this done by the end of the day? But, you know, that kind of thing. And I thin…”
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Jun 10, 2024
Jun 10, 2024
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Tech Industry Must Shift From Disruptors to Responsible Partners
“We're no longer just the pirates and disruptors. We are the, we are part of the genetics of what happens in society, and we need to take, With power comes responsibility. We need to take responsibility of that, and the minimum beginning and responsibility is d…”
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Jun 10, 2024 neutral
Users Must Not Proxy Their Judgment of Truth to AI Models
“I mean, it's both, on one sense it's a great you know, kind of companion catalyst in these things. And on the other hand you have to be careful to not, it's just like, for example, don't proxy your judgment of truth to what you happen to have found in a search…”
Jun 10, 2024 positive
Jun 10, 2024 neutral
Hoffman Offered to Cover OpenAI Salaries When Elon Musk Departed
“When Elon had announced to the company that he was leaving and not financing it anymore, and, you know, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, Sam called me, and I said, look, I'll cover the salaries, and on, and he asked me if he joined the board, and I said, yes, …”
Jun 10, 2024
Disrupting Tech-Stagnant Oligopolies Creates Massive Venture Value
“If an industry has had decades of technological innovation that are not reflected in the market, because the structure of the market Kind of locks in this anti-innovation kind of oligarchy. It's hard because there's something that's locking it in, but if you c…”
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Dec 16, 2024 positive
Hoffman: Europe must increase its defense spending to counter threats like Russia
“I, look, I think it's better for the world and better for Europe if Europe increases its defense spending. Now, I understand it was the right thing after World War II and the right thing with the Marshall Plan and the right thing to create interdependence to d…”
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Dec 16, 2024 positive
Hoffman: Americans should help make any presidential administration successful
“I think one of the things that it's a responsibility of Americans to do, including myself of course, is you try to make whatever administration as successful as possible for the people of America, for the country, for the industry.”
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Hoffman: US will benefit substantially from significant deregulation
“I actually think the U.S. Will be benefited by a substantial reduction in regulation because the kind of like the, okay, for every new regulation you want to add, remove two, as a way of kind of modernizing and refactoring versus just decreting”
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Hoffman: Blocking tech acquisitions entrenches monopolies by deterring startup funding
“If you want competition with those large companies from startups, Investors, say for example, I'm an investor who's gonna put a billion dollars into a company that might compete with one of the large tech companies. I'm only gonna put the billion dollars in if…”
Dec 16, 2024
Hoffman writes off all personal nuclear energy investments to zero
“I myself have been investing in both fission and fusion over the last, you know, five to 10 years entirely philanthropically. I have no idea how to invest in this As a, as, when I do these investments, I write them to zero in my book.”
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Dec 16, 2024 bullish
Hoffman: Derailed Adobe acquisition will make me more money on Figma
“I mean, look, I'm an investor and all the rest, and I think Figma is an amazing company that's gonna, gonna, I'm probably going to make substantially more money because the deal was essentially derailed, but there was a bad theory of the case.”