Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman

CEO

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and founding member of PayPal, discusses success, entrepreneurship, and AI.

Books Mentioned On DOAC By Reid Hoffman:

Foundation
Foundation

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and you know this kind of stuff and then...

Book mentioned at 00:03:02
The Start-Up of You
The Start-Up of You

Reid Hoffman

My very first book The Start-Up of You, which, um, came from the commencement speech I gave at my high school...

Book mentioned at 00:11:29
Masters of Scale: Surprising truths from the world's most successful entrepreneurs
Masters of Scale: Surprising truths from the world's most successful entrepreneurs

Reid Hoffman, June Cohen, Deron Triff

I love podcasts, as you know. With 'Masters of Scale', I've had the delight of interviewing people like Tobi Lütke or Daniel Ek. When you look at their success with Shopify or Spotify, you think about how to run your own strategy from there.

Book mentioned at 00:13:16
Four Essays on Liberty
Four Essays on Liberty

Isaiah Berlin

I gave a couple days ago here in London the Sir Isaiah Berlin speech and one of the lines that I used in the speech was there's competing freedoms—you could say there's the freedom of speech to say whatever I want to say, and then there's a freedom to try to offer something in civil discourse.

Book mentioned at 01:22:40
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

There's so many different takes that I've heard on AI. I've spoken to Mustafa Suleyman; I've spoken to lots of different... you know Mustafa because you invested in his company.

Book mentioned at 01:38:53
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

Reid Hoffman

Everybody at the beginning it's part of the reason I wrote 'Impromptu,' which is what is AI? AI is great at adopting a role that you tell it to adopt. So here's a very simple one: you have an argument for something, you can paste it into an AI and say, counter this argument, take the role of critic,

Book mentioned at 01:53:47
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha

I'm sorry I keep referring 'The Startup of You,' but it was my first book. It's advice to young people, right? It's the I and the we—do things for yourself, do things for me, do things for we.

Book mentioned at 02:16:33
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh

When I was reading 'Blitzscaling' and watching the videos that you did—you've done several talks on it—one of the questions I had as an investor myself is: should they all be pursuing this idea of Blitzscaling where you go lightning-fast to building a massively valuable company?

Book mentioned at 02:21:08