Reid Hoffman
10 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by James Currier · said 16 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Erik Torenberg (5), Kevin Rose (2), James Currier (2), Frank Chen (2), Ben Horowitz (2), Michael Dearing (1), Marc Andreessen (1), Alex Rampell (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Reid Hoffman, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
LinkedIn Beat Ryze Because Reid Hoffman Recruited Silicon Valley's Top 4,000
“There was a guy named Scott who started Rise, R-Y-Z-E, in 2000, which was LinkedIn two years before LinkedIn. But he wasn't Reid Hoffman. And Reid knew the top 4000 people in Silicon Valley and emailed. And then once we were on, all the guys in New York wanted…”
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Hoffman: LinkedIn remains hard to disrupt due to difficult network dynamics
“And so I think the reason why it's been difficult to create a disruptor to LinkedIn is it's a very hard network to build. It's actually not easy. And by staying really true to it, you end up getting a lot of people going, well, this is where I am for that. And…”
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Oct 20, 2025 bullish
Hoffman: Using AI to generate startup due diligence plans saves a day
“When we get decks, we put them in and say, give me a due diligence plan, right? If not everybody here doing that, that's a mistake. Cause you, five minutes, you get one and you go, oh no, not two, not five. Oh, but three is good. And it would have taken me a d…”
Oct 20, 2025
Hoffman: PayPal almost went bankrupt from exponential free volume costs
“At PayPal we had to change to, like, we, as you know, because you were close to us there, like, we had to change to a paid model because we're like, oh, look, we have exponentiating volume, which means exponentiating cost curve, which means despite having rais…”
Oct 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025 neutral
Hoffman: In 10 to 20 years, doctors won't be human knowledge stores
“I actually think there will be a position for a doctor, 10 years from now, 20 years from now. It won't be as the knowledge store. It will be as a user of an, as an expert user of the knowledge store, but it's not gonna be, oh, because I went to med school for …”