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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, …”
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,…”
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…”
Hoffman: Greylock invested in Airbnb's Series A at a $60M post-money valuation
“Well when I did the Series A of Airbnb. Sixty million. Post.”
Hoffman passed on early investments in Stripe and Square
“I got pitched early in stripe and square, and I Didn't do the investments because I knew how hard payments was from PayPal.”
Hoffman Details Two-Hour Private Lunch With President Joe Biden
“Look, I've had a two hour lunch with Biden. He was asking me questions about AI. He was explaining stuff that was going on in nuanced detail in Israel.”
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…”
Greylock took a 6% to 7% initial ownership stake in Airbnb
“When I did the investment in Airbnb, you know, I was, I think it was like six or seven percent ownership,”
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.”
Satya Nadella allows Reid Hoffman to meet freely across Microsoft teams
“Satya feels perfectly comfortable having me meet with, like, everybody, like, people in company, product groups, and everything else, because he knows that I'm actually, in fact, very capable of giving that kind of advice and listening and so forth, without sa…”