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Reid Hoffman

Partner, Greylock. On 10 shows, 100 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Reid Hoffman was an early executive at PayPal and co-founded LinkedIn before becoming a partner at Greylock, where he participated in early investments in companies like Facebook and Airbnb. He is the founding host of the Masters of Scale podcast and author of books including Blitzscaling and The Start-up of You.

10shows
100appearances
672statements
104resolved
83supported
9contradicted
80%fully supported
343said about them ↓

Everything Reid Hoffman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MASTERS OF SCALE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: An AI GP as good as an average doctor is months away
“We could construct in a small number of months a medical assistant that is as capable as kind of call it You know an average GP or better that could run for, you know, small number of dollars per hour.”
Reid Hoffman Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 22:06 Dr. Rana el Kaliouby & Reid Hoffman: The future of human-centered AI | Masters of Scale
ALL-IN Opinion
Elon Musk's lawsuits against OpenAI are driven by sour grapes
“Frankly, I think probably the most charitable thing to say is sour grapes because, you know, for example, I know Sam offered him as much of the investment round as he wanted. Right? Like, he could have done the whole thing. He could have let it. You know, it w…”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 23:10 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ALL-IN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Synthetic data will make individual media training data irrelevant
“Don't try to hold out for money on the training side of things, because, you know, we're going to create synthetic data, we're going to do all kinds of other things that are going to mean that no one's particular data is really going to matter.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 28:10 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ALL-IN Insight
Hoffman: FTC blocking tech M&A quells venture capital investment
“Her theory is you gotta prevent the aggregation of power, so you gotta fight every acquisition of note. And the problem, of course, is that actually quells venture capital investment.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 33:04 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ALL-IN Disclosure
Hoffman funded ads highlighting RFK Jr.'s anti-vax stance to hurt Trump
“My thing was actually, in fact, making people aware of RFK's anti-vax, you know, statement, his anti-science stuff, because I thought that would be relevant in the polls in November. That, that was the actual strategy that, that I believe, and I think that wou…”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 51:09 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ALL-IN Opinion
Reid Hoffman calls proposed unrealized capital gains tax definitely stupid
“Look, I think it's definitely a quelling impact, and it's definitely stupid, and definitely shouldn't happen.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 1:02:08 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
ALL-IN Disclosure
Reid Hoffman funded E. Jean Carroll's civil lawsuit against Donald Trump
“What I funded was an ability to have, you know, kind of a woman who doesn't have power, who's being threatened by a rich man with a lot of money and power to try to silence her, to have her day in court where 12 everyday Americans, right, can come to a judgmen…”
Reid Hoffman Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 1:10:34 In conversation with Reid Hoffman & Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
20VC Opinion
Massive Tech Incumbents Funding Risky AI Projects Benefits Society
“And that actually is a feature, not a bug. Like part of the benefit you have is take this AI revolution we're in. Like it's because you have these large companies that can invest in multi-year risky projects that can create things that are massively valuable f…”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 17:24 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Assertion Partly supported
Microsoft Board Approved $1B for OpenAI Despite Having No Clear Product
“The very first OpenAI Microsoft deal was, you know, Satya and Kevin Scott brought to the Microsoft board. We want to put a billion dollars into the investment in this vehicle. From a five one C three that doesn't really have any particular plans at making its …”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 29:58 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
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 Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 33:51 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Opinion
Sam Altman Over-Indexed on AI Safety Advocates for OpenAI's Board
“I think he was making too much of a AI safety, you know, kind of, who are the most AI safety people, make sure they're on the board.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 35:17 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Hoffman: Open-sourcing AI tools hands election interference tech to North Korea
“You know, when you open source tools, well, all those tools, once you open source, you know, you might as well just, you know, ship it right over to North Korea to say, interfere away.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 11:39 Inside the making of Reid Hoffman's AI clone | Masters of Scale
NO PRIORS Insight
Reid Hoffman: Calls for a Global Six-Month AI Pause Cannot Work
“You don't set up a flare and say, everyone should pause for six months. Oh, look, eight billion people paused. On your theory of the universe, the UN would be a highly functioning organization that we would all use for a whole bunch of things. It doesn't work.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 7:55 No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
NO PRIORS Opinion
Hoffman: AI Improves Humanity's Overall Risk Portfolio Against Pandemics and Climate
“When you get to pandemic, maybe the only way to solve pandemic is AI. Well, a certain help for climate is AI. It's net, I think, strongly in the positive column. It doesn't to say that it might not add some existential risk characteristics to the overall portf…”
Reid Hoffman Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 10:18 No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
NO PRIORS Insight
Hoffman: AI cannot be built by UN committees, academics lack building experience
“And you just can't have AI built by UN committee. It just doesn't exist. And it's one of the things that academics mostly don't understand because they've never, most of them, not all, of course, but most have never built anything, don't really understand how …”
Reid Hoffman Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 29:33 No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
NO PRIORS Opinion
Hoffman: Intense AI regulation enshrines the past and harms humanity
“Generally speaking, regulation is enshrining the past against the future, and if you look at every industry that goes really intense in regulation, it's, it slows down intensely on innovation, and if you say, well, that's what we should be doing in AI, it's li…”
Reid Hoffman Dec 21, 2023 ▶ 32:49 No Priors Ep. 45 | With Reid Hoffman
Hoffman: GPT-4 is already superintelligent due to breadth across domains
“We already have super intelligence. GBD-IV is super intelligent. That doesn't mean, for example, if you say, okay, GBD-IV, tell Reid Hoffman how to better invest in artificial intelligence or craft good artificial intelligence that'll say anything that the exp…”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 2:24 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported
Hoffman: GPT-4 already diagnoses better than majority of human GPs
“And for example, a researcher at Microsoft, again, Peter Lee, has written an excellent book about showing how GPT-IV can already do medical diagnoses better than, you know, the majority of human GPs.”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 9:03 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: Framing AI primarily as an existential threat is naive
“And one of the things I think is naive about that statement and the reason I didn't sign it is because while it can be an existential risk, just like, you know, for example, you create nuclear power and nuclear weapons or an existential risk, it is also one of…”
Reid Hoffman Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 20:15 Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: The Six-Month AI Pause Letter Is 'Laughable' and Wrong
“Most of the folks who go concerns, go everything from the relatively laughable and silly six-month pause letter, which is kind of like wrong in its theory of human nature, wrong in its theory of technological development, wrong in its theory, like, just kind o…”
Reid Hoffman Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 29:59 Empathy in AI (Inflection AI’s Mustafa Suleyman) | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: Obsessing Over Robot Overlords Increases the Likelihood of Dystopia
“One of the places where the most of the existential risk people are doing a disservice and causing an increased likelihood of dystopia is that by focusing on kind of future robot overlords versus how human beings use this technology, Including, by the way, cri…”
Reid Hoffman Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 32:36 Empathy in AI (Inflection AI’s Mustafa Suleyman) | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: Governments Attempting to Slow Big Tech AI Are Misguided
“If you listen to the press and listen to the committees of people that are like, oh, we should slow these big tech companies down. It's like, well, actually, in fact, That's a bad participation because we have line of sight to a medical assistant, a tutor, you…”
Reid Hoffman Sep 29, 2023 ▶ 34:44 Empathy in AI (Inflection AI’s Mustafa Suleyman) | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: Proposing a six-month AI pause is like refusing word processors
“I'm hearing a whole bunch of, we should have a six month pause. And I kind of don't understand that you have to learn these tools. It's kind of like saying, I'm going to be a writer and I'm not going to use a word processor. I'm going to be a graphic designer …”
Reid Hoffman Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 5:31 Reid Hoffman: Prepare for where AI is headed next | Masters of Scale
Hoffman: No member of Congress should be trusted with tech development
“I don't think there's a single member of Congress that I would trust with technological development and knowing how to navigate that.”
Reid Hoffman Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 10:34 Reid Hoffman: Prepare for where AI is headed next | Masters of Scale

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The other half of the tape: Reid Hoffman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 301 times in 123 episodes across the shows. 42 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 50David Sacks 34Mark Pincus 22Jason Calacanis 21David Friedberg 19Michael Tracey 18Chamath Palihapitiya 11Max Levchin 9

Statements about Reid Hoffman, by other people (42)

ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Reid Hoffman told Peter Thiel he wished Trump was a martyr
“Just days before the shooting, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had an exchange at Allen and company that was publicly reported. In which Peter said that Reed had turned Trump into a martyr by funding lawfare, and Reed responded, I wish I had turned him into an ac…”
David Sacks Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 16:49 Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
20VC Opinion
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…”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 35:20 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2029
Bass: Documents record 42 meetings between Reid Hoffman and Jeffrey Epstein
“There's something like 42 different meetings that are documented. Around 20 are absolutely confirmed.”
Kevin Bass Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 1:19:05 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
ALL-IN Assertion Open · timeframe Feb 2029
Bass: Reid Hoffman initiated contact with Jeffrey Epstein around 400 times
“There's something around on the order of about 400 initiations by Hoffman to Epstein.”
Kevin Bass Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 1:18:46 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
ALL-IN Opinion
Sacks: NYT selectively targets right-coded tech figures in Epstein coverage
“The New York Times clearly has a list of people they consider approved targets. They're all right-coded. People like Elon or Peter Thiel and even J. Cal, Because of his association with us, I guess, and they become the targets, but the people who've donated hu…”
David Sacks Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 15:06 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: Reid Hoffman is mentioned 2,600 times in Epstein files
“The number one person in the Epstein files from Silicon Valley, which is Reid Hoffman, mentioned 2600 times, had a multi-year relationship with Epstein.”
David Sacks Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 14:24 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lonsdale: Competitors are weaponizing Reid Hoffman's politics against Joby
“One fund that put a billion dollars in is my friend. 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, …”
Joe Lonsdale Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 20:52 How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Pincus: Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman had a deep falling out
“Between Peter and Reed they've been friends for life, and they had a falling, deep falling out over all this”
Mark Pincus Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 53:34 All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
ALL-IN What-if
Chamath: Inflection AI deal would not happen without Hoffman and Gates
“They were able to get a deal for investors that would have never happened otherwise.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 46:23 E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
20VC Insight
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…”
Sahil Lavingia Aug 24, 2020 ▶ 9:38 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
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Pincus: Early backers sold Facebook stock because none foresaw its ultimate scale
“I don't think Reed or I Ever imagined how, I know none of us ever imagined how big this, Peter Thiel, all of us, we all sold our stock in Facebook, so we voted with our shares, you know, none of us could have ever described how big this all got.”
Mark Pincus Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 6:02 Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
ALL-IN Assertion Supported
Sacks: NYT Epstein article mentioned Reid Hoffman in only one sentence
“Reid Hoffman was only mentioned in one sentence along with three other people.”
David Sacks Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 1:28:38 Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
ALL-IN Disclosure
Mark Pincus bought Six Degrees patents for $750K and still owns half
“Reid and I bought them because we were worried that if Yahoo at the time had gotten them, or even Friendster, that they would have blocked the whole industry, so we bought them. We paid 750 K, which was a lot then, and we were accused of being patent trolls, a…”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 5:34 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Noah Kagan: Reid Hoffman's 'jump off a cliff' advice sounds crazy
“I think most people think they have to take a big risk. I got to quit like Reid Hoffman's famous line. Yep. Jump off a cliff. I'm like, and you build a parachute on the way down, which I was like, that sounds crazy to me.”
Noah Kagan Jun 24, 2024 ▶ 5:43 Noah Kagan: How to start a business today | Masters of Scale
Ito: Hoffman's 'let fires burn' philosophy harms work-life balance
“So the only concern I have for Reed is that this notion of letting fires burn isn't the greatest philosophy for having a work-life balance, and I think that's something that Reed is now just starting to process.”
Joi Ito Mar 17, 2023 ▶ 10:39 Arianna Huffington: What great founders do at night
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reid Hoffman's advice on securing assets sparked PayPal's electronic wallet pivot
“Reid was one of the more prescient Grains who was sort of like, hey, you can secure other things. Maybe you can like secure invoices or secure IOUs or, you know, secure something that kind of is valuable in and of itself. And that kind of pushed us close enou…”
Max Levchin Jun 13, 2022 ▶ 44:38 PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
a16z Assertion Partly supported
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…”
James Currier Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:55 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: You will never become a billionaire unless you need to be
“You know, I said to Reid Hoffman once I don't need to be a billionaire. And then he smiled and said, then you won't be.”
Jeff Berman Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 24:32 Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks on the simulation we're living in | Masters of Scale
20VC Assertion Partly supported
O'Driscoll: Musk and Altman Donated $30M+ and $10M to OpenAI
“You know, Elon shipped in thirty million plus, Sam Altman shipped in 10, Reid Hoffman.”
Rory O'Driscoll Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 25:23 Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ALL-IN Disclosure
Mark Pincus co-funded Friendster and invested in early Facebook and Twitter rounds
“Yeah, Reed and I put up the first money for Friendster. And then we were lucky enough to invest along with Peter in the first round of Facebook. The first on Twitter, so.”
Mark Pincus Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 4:48 Red-pilled Billionaires, LA Fire Update, Newsom's Price Caps, TikTok Ban, Jobless MBAs
Masters of Scale will deploy and disclose Reid Hoffman's AI voice clone
“We are going to use it. And we are going to disclose it. Whether that's in the episode audio, the show notes, or some embedded metadata option that comes along, we don't yet know.”
Jeff Berman May 23, 2024 ▶ 31:15 How we cloned Reid Hoffman’s voice using AI | Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale requires human scripting and Reid Hoffman's approval for AI
“One of the ways that we're putting guardrails on the use of the technology is that the script is still written by writers, researched by researchers, vetted by Reed, and signed off on editorially, and we're really putting a lot of importance on that, and feeli…”
Eve Trow May 23, 2024 ▶ 24:59 How we cloned Reid Hoffman’s voice using AI | Masters of Scale
20VC Assertion Supported
Barnes: Reid Hoffman Was Sole LP in Sweat Equity Ventures
“He convinced Reid Hoffman to invest in the company. He went out and did the work. He earned equity in amazing companies. That equity is now the portfolio that Reid was the sole LP in.”
Phin Barnes Oct 2, 2023 ▶ 1:07:12 Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Supported
Levchin: Reid Hoffman was running failing SocialNet while on Confinity's board
“He was a board member of ours, and he was running this company called Social Net, I think it was called, and it was failing.”
Max Levchin Jun 13, 2022 ▶ 45:26 PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)

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MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER Partner, Greylockhost 87 376 83% 62/75 full record on Masters of Scale →
20VCLEDGER Partner, Greylock 3 118 69% 11/16 full record on 20VC →
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