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Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 30, 2026 · 1 mention

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 12, 2026 · 1 mention

Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 18, 2025 · 1 mention

Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:51 Harry Stebbings I'm just gonna say for any vegans that are listening, no chickens were shot out of cannons, and that is the most extremely Swedish way of, you know, it's the Reid Hoffman who says, you know, it's about kind of running off the cliff or…

George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:58 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Reid, Reid, Benioff and Daniel Dines are like, uh, yes, we are. 2 times in the scene

Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 6, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:01:00 Harry Stebbings I asked Reid Hoffman this morning, twenty-twenty-five, end of year, what is the price of Bitcoin? 3 times in the scene

Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2024 · 2 mentions

Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:16 Kevin Hartz We were able to put some amount of capital in the A that Reid Hoffman led, which, thank you, Reid, um, for, for making some room there.

Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 15, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:58 Saam Motamedi One is we look at the data, and as my partner Reid always says, when you see the data that that's, that's explosive,

Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 1, 2024 · 1 mention

Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jun 5, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:23 Harry Stebbings Oh, I had Reid Hoffman on the show actually earlier this week, and he said actually that we will see the kind of verticalization of models, that you will use different models for different things. 2 times in the scene

Christian Hecker & Johan Brenner: The Biggest Fundraising Lessons Having Raised $1.3BN | E1116 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Feb 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:44 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, you know, there's some U S venture investors in particular, you know, Reid Hoffman, who says, you know, raise as much as you can, when you can, how do you think about that?

Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Nov 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 35:27 Keith Rabois In 2003 to five, when the company was really founded, most people thought the internet was dead, so we didn't, Reid Hoffman, who founded the company, really couldn't get the stellar quality of talent that Mike was, Mike's been able to tap…

Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 2, 2023 · 2 mentions

Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 27, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 48:19 Christian Lanng I remember, you know, when I first came to Silicon Valley, it was with Reid Hoffman who actually told me, he said, like, within two square miles of where you stand, there's 5000 startups.
  • ▶ 1:13:14 Christian Lanng Like Reed Hoffman, he just walked around in San Francisco and looked for any startup that has survived 2008 and just gave them money.

Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:14 Howie Liu Um, I think Reid Hoffman had wrote, wrote, uh, written this, this, uh, this plan and, you know, it had like MAU counts and revenue goals and, and, uh, and just in full detail,

Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2023 · 13 mentions

Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 28, 2023 · 1 mention

Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 5, 2023 · 2 mentions

a16z GP Jeff Jordan: The Ultimate Guide to Two-Sided Marketplaces | 20VC #966 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 16, 2023 · 1 mention

Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 14, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:16 Tristan Handy Uh, and it did like, you know, blitzscaling, uh, with, with, you know, Reed's book.

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 Aug 23, 2021 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 4:20 Emilie Choi I learned so much from Jeff and Reed and others at the company.
  • ▶ 6:32 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask that because, you know, I spoke to one of your board members at Coinbase, Gokul Rajaram, and he said, you've got to ask Emily, what lessons did you learn from Jeff and Reid at LinkedIn that you've put into effect at… 5 times in the scene

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 Apr 19, 2021 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 3:00 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many great things from Reed, from Sarah, from Mike on your team, so thank you so much for joining me today. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:55 Harry Stebbings I mean, you can't give me a bone like that and not expect me to take it, but you know, working with Reed, Mark, David at Roblox, in terms of leadership and what makes great leadership, you've seen the best of the best.
  • ▶ 11:22 David Sze Can often include pushing them in harder ways than maybe I initially thought, and so, you know, what was great about, for example, Reed, my partnership with Reed, was he was a wonderful thought partner. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:56 Harry Stebbings I need your help though, David, actually, because when you speak about the intricacies of those relationships, they're incredible to hear, and hearing bluntly from the likes of Reid and Mike about the depth of your relationship with…
  • ▶ 38:00 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Sarah Grove before the show, and she said you've got to ask, chasing Reed down on a trip to Hong Kong. 4 times in the scene

20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021? Jan 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:20 Harry Stebbings Because you have, you know, your Reid Hoffman on the one hand, he says, when money's there, take it.

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 Dec 28, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:42 Quentin Clark Meetings number one, and number two, Reid Hoffman, Hemantinajah. 3 times in the scene

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 Dec 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 36:05 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode on Monday with the one and only Reid Hoffman.

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 Nov 9, 2020 · 1 mention

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 Aug 24, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:17 Harry Stebbings The question I always have, and I'm sorry for getting so off schedule, but it's like Reid Hoffman goes, you know, you should be embarrassed by your first 2 times in the scene

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 Jul 7, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:18 Joe Lonsdale So having founders around, being founders, whether we're talking about Vinod Khosla or Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen or Reid Hoffman or the list goes on and on.

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 Oct 18, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:13 Roy Bahat Greylock led his series A, and he told me the reason he wanted to work with Greylock is Reid Hoffman, I think before he was there as a partner, said to him, Greylock's not going to screw you.

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? Jun 28, 2019 · 1 mention

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 Jan 18, 2019 · 1 mention

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 Dec 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:41 Dave Vasen I once heard Reid Hoffman say you want to build culture, not protect it, and I really like that.

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... Dec 3, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:45 Danny Rimer He, as Jeff Wiener talks about with Reid Hoffman, had a founding moment, so he's really like a founder, because he took over that company when it was a disaster, and it's now growing incredibly well again.

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 Nov 9, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings So Keith Raboy, Reid Hoffman, Founder Collective, Felicis, Andreessen, and Thrive, just to name a few.
  • ▶ 25:44 Ooshma Garg And then he was messaging folks like Reed Hoffman, who then came in and other folks.

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 Sep 24, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 30:33 Sarah Tavel So, Reid Hoffman, who I had the benefit and honor of working with at Greylock, has a saying where every strength has a corresponding weakness, and vice versa, and I find myself coming back to that, I think, every single day, because…

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 Jul 17, 2018 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:40 Harry Stebbings And now Elad is adding a new string to his very talented bow with the release of his book, High Growth Handbook, published by Stripe, in which Elad interviews 14 leaders from the Valley, from Marc Andreessen to Reid Hoffman to Patrick…
  • ▶ 40:52 Elad Gil Ben Horowitz and Reid Hoffman. 4 times in the scene

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 Feb 26, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:31 Harry Stebbings With the notion of the Reid Hoffman of the world, you know, if you're not embarrassed of V one, then it's too late.

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 Jan 15, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:26 Emilie Choi I think Reed was the one who said something about good entrepreneurs talk to anyone who might help them. 2 times in the scene

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" Aug 25, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Prior to Nuzzle, Jonathan was the founder of early social media machine, Friendster, attaining funding from Benchmark Kleiner and Reid Hoffman.

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 Aug 18, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:36 Harry Stebbings So would you not disagree then with Reid Hoffman in terms of if you're not embarrassed of your first product release, uh, it's too late. 2 times in the scene

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 Jul 17, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:37 Harry Stebbings Do you agree with Reid Hoffman in stating that if you're not embarrassed of your first product shipment, it's too late?

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 Mar 8, 2017 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 5:26 Lee Hower Reid Hoffman, who I ended up working on for later on, Max, and on down the line, lots of other folks.
  • ▶ 17:50 Lee Hower In 2003, we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, literally a handful of people working out of Reed's apartment, Reed Hoffman's apartment in Mountain View, and we raised our first capital in 2003, a series A. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:50 Lee Hower You know, probably Reid Hoffman has been, I've been fortunate that I've, I've had a couple different people who've been mentors for me over, over the arc of my career. 5 times in the scene

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 Jan 25, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:51 Sarah Guo And I, I learned enormously different things from working with Josh, Reed, Ashim, Jerry, Sarah.

20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing Aug 15, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:32 Dave McClure I think Peter and Max and Reid Hoffman and a bunch of others, it obviously had lots and lots of success, but the lessons that we probably learned at PayPal were probably learned in the trenches with a lot of other people on the team.

20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing Aug 12, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:26 Adam Nash You know, Reid Hoffman, who I'm very close with, um, is obviously the founder and has been the, 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,…

20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First May 11, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 11:03 Harry Stebbings Do you then subscribe to, I think it's Reid Hoffman's thesis, that if you're not embarrassed by the first shipment of your product, then it's too late. 2 times in the scene

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 Apr 4, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:49 Josh Elman I watched him and Reed Hoffman, who's now another one of my partners at Greylock, just build this incredible lifelong friendship. 2 times in the scene

Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage Feb 1, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:29 Harry Stebbings And talking of CEOs, do you agree with Reid Hoffman that the founder isn't always necessarily the right person to endure the life cycle of the company?

20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen Jan 1, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 20:55 Richard Hanson Well, anybody who's been listening to the show should know that we did the book giveaway, and, um, I'm going to say The Alliance, um, which was co-authored by Reid Hoffman, uh, Ben Kasnocha, and Chris Yair, I believe. 3 times in the scene

20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London Oct 26, 2015 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:00 Harry Stebbings I mean, uh, you said there about earlier about LinkedIn, uh, and immediately came to my mind was Reid Hoffman.

20 VC 064: Finding Exceptional People with Big Ideas with Nick Beim, Partner @ Venrock Aug 19, 2015 · 1 mention

20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO May 4, 2015 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:53 Chris Dark Yeah, so look, I worked on the board of companies with people like Reid Hoffman, you know, who founded PayPal, LinkedIn, brilliant product guy. 2 times in the scene
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