Reid Hoffman

14 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2025 by Joe Lonsdale · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 4, 2025 negative
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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
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
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Hoffman: Manas AI found drug candidates for triple-negative breast cancer
“We've actually got even, we've made so much progress that we found some Interesting drug candidates already, even though we haven't finished our tech stack for possibilities for things like triple negative breast cancer and other things.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 19:31 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
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Hoffman: Apple is command-and-control with decisions made via executive memos
“Apple is very command and control. I don't know how much you know about their culture, but almost all the decisions are made by executives, by long memos, written their way, all the way to the top”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 5:45 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
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Hoffman: Only a very limited number of startups will build frontier compute
“And there's a limited number of startups that are going to be able to do the scale compute infrastructure that is required for frontier models, right? Not zero, right? Then we open AI, obviously moving to scale Anthropic, et cetera, but it's going to be a very…”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 14:36 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
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Hoffman: 24/7 AI medical assistants on every smartphone are in line of sight
“Now, as you and I know, we are line of sight from a medical assistant that's 24 seven on every smartphone for every person who has a smartphone.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 7:25 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025
Insight
Hoffman: 'A players' at PayPal are not the same as Apple's
“Well, the A players at PayPal, who would be massively successful there, are not the same players as the A players at Apple, who can be massively, so you actually get these areas of coherence and cultural identity”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 5:45 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025
Disclosure
Hoffman: AI digital twin built using custom ChatGPT and ElevenLabs
“So we did a custom chat GPT model for the read brain. We did 11 labs for The Voice, and then we're changing, it was our one initially, but we're changing, we're, as different models happen, we're doing different video.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 20:50 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025
Disclosure
Hoffman: I am fundamentally a centrist who dislikes political extremes
“Oh, I certainly do that. I mean, look, I'm fundamentally more of a centrist than anything else. So it's kind of like I dislike the extremes on both sides. And so, and you know me, just about everything I say and do is about innovation in technology and the eco…”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 14:00 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models
“So like, no, Manus is not going to go try to build, you know, a seven hundred billion or a trillion parameter model.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 18:00 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Insight
Hoffman: Competing on scale compute was a mistake for Inflection AI
“I think it's one of the mistakes we made with inflection was, oh, we're gonna go after the scale compute side, and that's something you should be very careful about doing if you're a startup.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 15:54 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: Startups will win in AI via applications and distilled models
“Actually, I think everyone's going to win because I think startups can do applications. Startups can do distilled models. Startups can do things off open source models. I think there's going to be a bunch of different things.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 15:42 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025
Disclosure
Hoffman: Interactive AI twin withheld from public over hacker abuse risks
“So I haven't put it out in the wild for this exact reason, because there's a whole group of hackers who they wouldn't care if it was Joe or Reed or anything else. They just wanted to say, Crazy stuff.”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 22:36 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: Israel Is Not Committing Genocide in Palestine
“I gone and argued against a lot of kind of lefties who are like saying, look, the only, like, for example, they say, you know, Israel is committing genocide against Palestine. You're like, no, it's not. Genocide is something different. You could say there's ci…”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 34:15 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Hoffman: AI twin delivered his Perugia doctorate speech in four languages
“I gave last year, no yeah, last year, a speech in Perugia for an honorary doctorate. And then I had Read AI give the same speech. In languages, because I really only speak English, in Hindi, in Chinese, in Japanese, in Italian”
Reid Hoffman Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 21:35 Two Billionaires Debate: Should We Fear AI? · Joe Lonsdale
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