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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Reid Hoffman comes up on All-In, 20VC, Top Founders, Acquired, In Depth
How a high school dropout became the CEO of Autodesk (with Andrew Anagnost)
- ▶ 13:40 Jeff Berman Tracy Ellis Ross, Greg Brockman, Melody Hobson, and many more have taken the summit stage alongside our very own Reid Hoffman.
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 19:51 Shaan Puri Max Levchin, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, the creators of YouTube, the creators of Yelp, the creator, obviously like a bunch of big brains in that room.
Building High-Growth Tech Ventures in the AI Era with Kory Jeffrey of Inovia Capital
- ▶ 35:25 Corey Jeffrey Hey, Reid Hoffman has a philosophy degree from Oxford, right?
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 23:41 John Coogan Like, there's been other, there's been other, I mean, I guess, Reid Hoffman and, uh, Jan Tallinn, and, um, who else is, I mean, Eric Schmidt's on here, but notably absent are Sam Altman, Daria Amadei, I don't believe Demis is on here, is…
"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 28:39 Cyan Banister I know that, um, I think Reid Hoffman for a long time did Settlers of Catan game nights and people would go play them.
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:02 Mark Pincus I don't think Reed or I
Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:25 Mark Pincus Think Weekend, Peter Thiel, and Reed, and Zuckerberg, and Sean Parker.
- ▶ 19:53 Mark Pincus Reed launched LinkedIn, or started pursuing LinkedIn, um, you know, before Facebook, before MySpace, I launched at a point that everything worked.
- ▶ 46:51 Mark Pincus And I teamed up with Reid Hoffman and with a really brilliant ML engineer and founder, Ratankar Das.
- ▶ 1:13:54 Mark Pincus They're just not eating pet.com dog food, but, but, and it was in the, the fall of 2002, or the Q four of 2002, that I remember, like, Reid Hoffman and I looked at Amazon's numbers they printed, and we're like, holy fuck, like, they just… 5 times in the scene
World's First Trillionaire, Anthropic Fable Banned, The New Oligarchs, Iran Peace Deal
- ▶ 50:14 Jason Calacanis Backed by Reid Hoffman, who funded the lawfare against the White House. 2 times in the scene
How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
- ▶ 33:54 Eric Jorgenson And the combined teams then included, like, Luke Nozick, and Roloff Botha, and Max Levchin, and Reid Hoffman, and David Sachs, and I'm sure many other people, Keith Reboi, like, dozens of luminaries of the valley these days.
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 18:44 Mark Pincus Napster was this cocktail party where we could connect with each other with nobody in between, and to me, that was the beginning of this social web, of we're the nodes, we're connecting this peer-to-peer web, and, and then Reed and I, Reed… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:08 Mark Pincus I think voice is one of those places, and I know Reid Hoffman had a great post about being voice-pilled about, I don't know, beginning of last year, and voice became a meme, really hot, beginning of last year, and then it died down.
Stop Overthinking: The 70% Rule to Beat Procrastination
- ▶ 17:41 Codie Sanchez And I love this line by Reid Hoffman.
How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams
- ▶ 34:58 Joe Lonsdale One of the smears was that Reid Hoffman's an investor, which is, uh, it's, it's a little bit annoying because I, I was an investor in Joby much earlier than Reid, uh, but, but because he's an unpopular Democrat with this administration,…
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:09 Harry Stebbings Reed Hoffman told me to build a parachute on the way down, so.
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 0:39 David Sacks And finally, Kevin Bass, a citizen journalist, has been tracking the release files and posting his findings on X, specifically in regards to Reid Hoffman, perhaps the figure in tech most closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
- ▶ 1:14:34 David Sacks And in particular, you've been looking at Reid Hoffman's story about Epstein and you've put together an analysis. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:14 Michael Tracey And I know Reid Hoffman apparently had a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than just one email here or there, but the principle that anybody who had some interaction of, of some degree, uh, to some degree or another with Jeffrey… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:21 Michael Tracey I mean, there's some more who have like come to take on a little bit more of a skeptical perspective, but well, I think we should, we have, we should be cognizant of the real world ramifications rather than just speaking about it in the… 4 times in the scene
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 8:31 David Sacks Reed Hoffman and enjoy ito that involves some of the Bitcoin core developers. 6 times in the scene
Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:42 Jordi Hays Yeah, or you have, uh, Hoffman and Elon going back and forth.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:43:25 Jason Cohen For Central Texas, which I co-won with the CEO of WP Engine, Heather Bruner, uh, which is awesome because I, I often call Heather our, uh, a late joining co-founder because that's what, um, LinkedIn, that's what Reed Hoffman called Jeff…
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:23 Rory O'Driscoll You know, Elon shipped in thirty million plus, Sam Altman shipped in 10, Reid Hoffman.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 1:03:49 Alex Rampell So we have the capacity to do lots and lots of deals, but if it's the best deal in the world, we need to assume that our counterparty is Roloff at Sequoia, or is, you know, a top partner at Excel, or Reid Hoffman at Greylock.
The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:59 unnamed speaker OpenAI leaders were divided over early investor Reid Hoffman's decision to start a rival AI lab inflection.
Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:39 Alex Rampell I pitched them, like, after I'd met Reed, like, 20 times, and it's like, he knew me.
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 3:59 Chamath Palihapitiya Even Reid Hoffman thinks this is insane.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:29 unnamed speaker You've read Hoffman.
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 1:04:57 Tomer Cohen I've, you know, the way I've got to know about LinkedIn deeply the very first time was when I moved to the Valley and I, you know, went to a lecture at Stanford about social networks in 2008 and, uh, and Reed was there and he talked about…
How his AI-first services company grew $0 to $40M ARR in one year. | Eric Foster, Founder of Tenex · PMF Show
- ▶ 1:08:52 Eric Foster It's, I think it was Reid Hoffman who said, you know, the whole thing of a startup
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 9:17 Jason Calacanis All the scientists, Joey Ito, Reid Hoffman, all of these folks were trying to get his money. 4 times in the scene
#2283 How Dan Shipper uses AI to build artisanal AI apps
- ▶ 2:42 Dan Shipper From Reed Hoffman and, um, starting line DC.
Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:18 Molly O'Shea Um, he spoke and also Reid Hoffman spoke at Forerunners AI conference back in like summertime that Kirsten Green throws. 2 times in the scene
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 38:15 Kevin Rose You know, I would put a bunch of people in that camp, like, you know, the sistrums and, uh, Reid Hoffman and just like all the people that I've been able to kind of brainstorm with over the years and, and sit and, and hear great minds kind…
- ▶ 1:11:40 Kevin Rose But you know, it's funny, like I was talking to, I think it was Reed and David that were at Greylock back in the day, and they said their best investments were the ones that were the most contentious internally.
Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 18:11 Molly O'Shea Reid Hoffman.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:43 Ben Gilbert Reid Hoffman?
- ▶ 1:24:44 David Rosenthal Reid Hoffman.
- ▶ 1:24:47 David Rosenthal We are gonna come back to Reid in just a little bit here.
- ▶ 1:36:45 Ben Gilbert And that came from, famously, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, who I think most people don't realize was part of that initial tranche, and Peter Thiel.
- ▶ 2:08:52 David Rosenthal Sam turns to one of the other board members of OpenAI, Reid Hoffman.
- ▶ 2:08:57 David Rosenthal Reid, just a year or so earlier, had sold LinkedIn to Microsoft, and Reid is now on the board of Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:09:07 David Rosenthal So Reid says, hey, why don't you come talk to Satya about this?
- ▶ 2:10:06 David Rosenthal Reid Hoffman joins the board of this new structure, along with Sam, Ilya, Greg Brockman, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley.
- ▶ 2:42:25 David Rosenthal Reid Hoffman.
- ▶ 2:42:27 David Rosenthal Remember, Reid is on the ethics board for DeepMind.
- ▶ 2:42:30 David Rosenthal And Mustafa and Reid leave and go found inflection AI.
- ▶ 2:43:06 David Rosenthal Remember again, Reed is on the board of Microsoft.
She Coaches 60 Leaders at Once and Sees the Same Trap Every Time
- ▶ 25:04 Sean Weisbrot That's Reid Hoffman's, uh, phrase. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Lessons from PayPal Mafia, $OPEN, & Investing · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:32 Keith Rabois I've actually given a whole speech on lessons I've learned from Vinod, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, but I try to absorb from everybody.
- ▶ 21:41 Keith Rabois Well, these days I haven't looked up Google's market cap, but I can tell you it's like at least 50 X eBay's, um, all because they had management consultants running around and they believe these idiots, where I remember seeing in the…
- ▶ 32:21 Keith Rabois Like, um, I've actually given a whole presentation, a whole podcast, a whole speech on, like, lessons I've learned from Vinod, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin.
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 0:27 Sam Chaudhary We had this conversation with Reid Hoffman. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Sam Chaudhary And then we had this very, like, again, very formative conversation with Reid Hoffman, who came as a speaker to one of these things. 3 times in the scene
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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…
Solving Liquidity Challenges & Enhancing Transparency in Private Markets
- ▶ 30:25 Charles Anselm So Reed Hoffman says that you have to have, like, strong opinions loosely held, right?
SAMIR CHAUDRY: ChatGPT Might Kill YouTube — Here's How
- ▶ 0:47 Samir Chaudry Actually, it was a conversation with Reid Hoffman. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:27 Samir Chaudry You know, I, I, I, my curiosity with having a lot of the, like, like Mustafa on the show or Reid Hoffman on the show is to understand the incentives and the curiosity of the creators, uh, of, of these programs, and even with someone like…
Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 50:42 Vinod Khosla Um, Reid Hoffman has a new book called Super Agency.
How This VC Went From Broke to Becoming the Hot Hand in Silicon Valley · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 57:37 Ramtin Naimi And the people who answered that question were like, Reid Hoffman, he's like, I founded LinkedIn when I was over 35.
He Built MY Startup Idea and Sold It in 8 Days ($15K Side Hustle)
- ▶ 30:02 Josh Pigford Um, and I mean, there's like that Reid Hoffman quote about like, if you've launched something that's like perfect or whatever, you've waited too late or something like that.
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 37:12 Erik Torenberg Is it sort of creating new behavior or kind of just revealing behavior that was in that, you know, this, uh, I remember one interview you did with Kara and Reid Hoffman, I think around sort of the 2018, 2019 time. 5 times in the scene
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 1:04:51 Dan Shipper Um, and we did the same thing for this recent round where we raised up to two million from Reed Hoffman and, um, starting line VC. 2 times in the scene
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 1:29:16 Keith Rabois He's collecting a bunch of misfits, so we might as well take Reid too.
Why a16z Bet $15 Million on THIS Controversial Startup · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 16:08 Molly O'Shea Reid Hoffman was one of the first keynotes that they had. 4 times in the scene
Genspark vs ChatGPT, my brutally honest review
- ▶ 15:21 Greg Isenberg Reid Hoffman, Eric Reese, Mark Cuban.
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 5:58 Lenny Rachitsky Reid Hoffman actually just tweeted this. 3 times in the scene
The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private with Bill Gurley · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:20:16 Bill Gurley And this is advice in any cycle really, but it gets accentuated here because the amount of capital I, I thought, you know, one of my favorite pieces that Reid Hoffman ever wrote, he wrote about Uber, this pirate Navy metaphor.
How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 20:54 Joe Lonsdale Michael Thompson, who he, you know, I feel like I'm friends with both sides, but I'm kind of on the moderate right, I'm on the right, and Michael is on the right, and his partner Reid Hoffman's on the left, and they put a ton of money in,… 3 times in the scene
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 56:32 Lenny Rachitsky Blitz scaled, as the Rudolphman called it.
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 6:21 Aparna Chennapragada And Reed Hoffman says this, hey, if you don't,
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
How Tech Can Save America | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 8:15 Delian Asparouhov Uh, Reed Hoffman. 2 times in the scene
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:00:14 Bret Taylor Foundation models, I think, are somewhat distinct from frontier models, and frontier models, I think it's a term credited to, to Reid Hoffman, but, uh, I may be mistaken on that, but that's where I heard it from.
Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)
- ▶ 1:19:23 Rahul Vohra SDR is a thinking tool that I picked up from Reid Hoffman during my time at LinkedIn.
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 3:13 Jason Calacanis How is Reid Hoffman's invite?
#55 A New Spin on VR
- ▶ 31:29 Tom Impalameni You know, there's a, I think it was Reid Hoffman said, you know, building a startup is like jumping out of a plane and then assembling another plane on the way down.
How DeepSeek Changes AI Research & Silicon Valley w/ M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 20:34 Alex Kantrowitz And I, and let's get into the business and I'm, I'm smiling here because you're making me think of, we have Reid Hoffman on the show on Wednesday and I interviewed him before our one came out.
- ▶ 44:28 Alex Kantrowitz We'll be back on Wednesday with my interview with Reid Hoffman.
Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- ▶ 8:09 Jordi Hays He, he, he praised Reid Hoffman in twenty-twenty-one saying, uh, you know, if it wasn't for Reid, Trump would be ours. 2 times in the scene
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:58 Harry Stebbings And, you know, Reid, Reid, Benioff and Daniel Dines are like, uh, yes, we are. 2 times in the scene
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
- ▶ 12:48 Jason Calacanis Pincus, anybody, would you like to pardon, uh, Reid Hoffman?
- ▶ 53:34 Mark Pincus Peter and Reed. 2 times in the scene
From Skeptic to Supporter: How This Billionaire Got ‘Red-Pilled’ by Trump
- ▶ 3:57 Mark Pincus And, but I'll get back to your read question, but what I love about my New York Times, about my New York friends is that they did not give a , they were all pro Kamala 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:50 Mark Pincus I think that we're now in this time, I think we're having, authenticity is having a moment now, which is great for me, because Reid said to me, I, I've, if you Google me, you'll see that there's lots and lots of bad things written about… 2 times in the scene
Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
- ▶ 4:48 Mark Pincus I think of that as the beginning of all this, but then yeah, Reed and I put up the first money for Friendster. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 David Friedberg Are you still close with, with Reid, Mark? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Mark Pincus I think that we're now in this time, I think we're having, authenticity is having a moment now, which is great for me, because Reid said to me, I, I've, if you Google me, you'll see that there's lots and lots of bad things written about… 2 times in the scene
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 1:37:25 Jordi Hays We could have, we'd have Reid Hoffman come, uh, come back to the island.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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
HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and When Incumbents Win
- ▶ 39:08 Brian Halligan Like, Reid Hoffman's avatar is pretty darn good.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 5:59 unnamed speaker Well said, Reed.
Trump's Cabinet, Google's Quantum Chip, Apple's Flop, TikTok, State of VC
- ▶ 3:31 Keith Rabois Like Reed left PayPal, started LinkedIn.
Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show
3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
- ▶ 53:40 Shaan Puri Reid Hoffman has a podcast.
His startup Cameo was a unicorn—until it crashed 90%. Here's how he went from near-bankrupt to pr... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:41 Steven Galanis And, and there was only like five, five, a people, you know, it was Reed Hoffman.
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 27:27 Chamath Palihapitiya If you think that the intelligentsia, quote unquote, the Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman's of the world that funds Dustin Moskovitz, that funds the Democratic apparatus at the highest level, if they can't change,
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