Hoffman: Acquiring Lynda.com was not a priority he would have chosen
Reid Hoffman · Reid Hoffman & Jeff Berman on why the future needs re-founders | Masters of Scale · Apr 28, 2024 · at 14:04
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, discusses handing executive decision-making authority to successor CEO Jeff Weiner, who championed acquiring online learning company Lynda.com.
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“Jeff was focused on education. So bought Linda. At that point, we'd already had enough of established relationship that I was like, look, this isn't the thing I would choose to do, but if this is yours, This is the thing that is too often under described in MBA schools and so forth, which is part of the mission of the organization is the mission of the CEO kind of like synergizing with the organization.”
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