Hoffman: There is a very low probability I will start another company
Reid Hoffman · LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman · Jan 15, 2018 · at 33:33
Host Guy Raz asks LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman if he is finished founding new companies.
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“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 of, You know, game changing organizations. And they're all on my LinkedIn profile, because of course this is part of what LinkedIn's for. And so I would have to, I'd have to seriously reduce a bunch of that if I were going to start a company. Now, maybe the right thing occurs to me, it's the right thing for the world, it's the thing I should do, but I think it's very low probability.”
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