Reid Hoffman
15 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 15, 2018 by Reid Hoffman · said 18 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Max Levchin (9), Guy Raz (7), Adam Grant (2)
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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2022 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
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Jan 15, 2018
Hoffman advises professionals to head directly to the center of the action
“You know, the career advice that I give people is to go to where the central, the heat of the action is. In the industries or the products or the services that you care about, and then, you know, just work your way up from there being at the center of the acti…”
Jan 15, 2018 negative
Hoffman: Competing over bank account size is spiritually self-destructive
“I've never kind of thought about it as a kind of a race for, like, whose bank account is biggest. Because I just think that's useless. It's not a spiritual identity. It's actually self-destructive to your own spiritual character.”
Jan 15, 2018 positive
Hoffman: Early startup failures build essential humility and objectivity
“I actually think that those kinds of failures are really good because you learn from them, and so you learn to keep a certain amount of humility, you learn to keep a certain amount of objectivity, you realize that, you know, that kind of the I am Superman kind…”
Jan 15, 2018 neutral
Hoffman: There is a very low probability I will start another company
“I think so. You know, it's kind of this never say never thing, but you know, there's a wide variety of really important organizations that I sit on the boards of. Microsoft, obviously, one of them. Airbnb, Convoy there's a set of these different you know, kind…”
Jan 15, 2018 negative
Hoffman learned he was ousted from Socialnet's board via Series C paperwork
“Amongst the things they did is when we were raising the Series C round, the way that I learned that I was no longer going to be a board member was that the financing paperwork showed up, and that was just what was in the financing paperwork.”
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Raz: Thiel's $500K Facebook investment turned into over $1B in eight years
“Well, Peter can probably thank Reed for helping him become a billionaire, because back in 2004, Reed introduced Peter to a young entrepreneur who just dropped out of Harvard. Peter decided to give that dropout 500,000 dollars in angel money and Of course, you …”
Jun 13, 2022 positive
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…”
Jun 13, 2022 neutral