Reid Hoffman

9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 29, 2025 by Reid Hoffman · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jan 29, 2025 neutral
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Hoffman: OpenAI meant open API access, not open source models
“In terms of being open, there's lots of different parameters of open, and open AI has been, you know, working to have, like, open, you know, kind of you know, with, obviously, identity and registration for safety, but open AI, API access. It wasn't called open…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 10:12 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Hoffman: Late-stage AI rounds do not require 10x returns to succeed
“The investment that investors made last year is kind of more of a growth venture round relative to, it doesn't necessarily require a 10 X. I mean, you know, we have trillion dollar companies now, so, you know, trillion dollar companies are definitely within fe…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 6:13 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
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Hoffman: OpenAI Offers Many Products Below Cost to Maximize Adoption
“And OpenAI is actually, you know spending a bunch of money making it free or subsidized to get the widest possible exposure, engagement in the, and learning about these products and being able to use them. You know, a lot of OpenAI products are offered at belo…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 13:53 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 bullish
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Hoffman: Voice will very soon become the main computing interface
“A hundred percent. One of the party tricks I do is I bring out my phone and put ChatGPT on audio mode to show people. Because part of when we learn to use phones or PCs, we've learned, you know, with GUIs and everything else, we've made it softer, but there's …”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 49:19 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: Precautionary regulation causes Europe to lag the US and China
“The problem with most people's default modes of regulation, including a lot of regulators and including a lot of European regulators is you say, well, our job is to protect bad things from happening. And by the way, the simplest way to do that is to prevent an…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 38:13 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Hoffman: Iterative deployment with small errors creates a safer technological future
“What you want is you want small errors and small problems that you're learning, hence iterative deployment, that you then fix as it gets to scale, and that's the way you create a safe future.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 39:09 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Hoffman: Distrust Is the Default Initial Human Reaction to New Technology
“Very much broadly, most human beings start with a new technology with distrust.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 29:09 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Hoffman: Greylock's Series A in Airbnb bled money before succeeding
“Greylock investment in Airbnb, which I led the series A of, had that similar characteristics of just bleeding money, and then later being the amazing business we see today.”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 5:57 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hoffman: AI will transform jobs and replace workers who do not use it
“A classic one with AI is say, well, this is going to change a lot of jobs. And it will, cause it's a kind of a new tool set, like a new tool set. Like if you say, Hey, I'm a professional today and I don't use smartphones and I don't use computers. It's like, n…”
Reid Hoffman Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 32:59 Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
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