Amol Rajan

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I am back, or at least I will be very, very soon.

Look, just before you hear this episode, which was fronted not by me, but by the brilliant John Byrne Murdoch from the Financial Times, one of the preeminent data journalists of our age, I wanted to tell you about a guest we've got coming up on Radical called Ben Cohen.

He's a rather famous Ben because he opened an ice cream shop in 1978 with his childhood friend, Jerry Greenfield.

And so, one of the world's most recognisable brands, Ben & Jerry's, was born.

What makes him radical is that Ben & Jerry's aren't just famous for their flavours, they've also staked their reputation on their activism, turning ice cream into a vehicle for values.

From campaigning on climate issues, criminal justice and corporate power,

to taking on their parent company over their social activism on the Israel-Gaza war.

Ben Cohen has spent decades arguing that running a business should mean more than just profit.

We'll be asking what radical business activism really looks like, whether big brands should pick sides, and whether his philosophy can withstand the corporate climate in Donald Trump's America.

As always, we want your radical questions.

Please do send us a voice note for Ben Cohen on WhatsApp, 0330 123 9480, or you can email radical at bbc.co.uk.

Thank you, and now on to this week's episode.

Hello! Welcome to Your Radical Questions. This is where I put your magnificent questions to one of our guests. You can engage very, very directly with them through me and I will really pursue answers on your behalf. What a chance, what an opportunity for you to connect with the amazing people we have in this studio. And our guest today, our guest on Thursday's episode is a man who has lived many lives. He was one of the founders of PayPal. There are too many companies to mention. I think the main thing you might know is that he was a co-founder

and really the big brains behind LinkedIn, which now has 1.3 billion users. He's an entrepreneur, an author of many, many books, including Blitzscaling, Super Agency, The Start of You. Those are just the three that I've read. He's an AI pioneer, investor and billionaire, and he is Reid Hoffman. Reid, good to see you. Great to see you. Fantastic to have you with us. Our first question is from Michael.

Michael, that's such an interesting question. Is this sort of accusation there that LinkedIn is promoting jobs that aren't really the jobs they're pretending to be? Or is the problem that the underlying economy has seen a kind of material deterioration in the quality of jobs? Well, so it would be the first that I've heard that LinkedIn has some kind of direct responsibility for this. So I have zero information and any other question on that vector. So I'll take it as the second question versus the first, which is,

Mitä mieltä olet siitä, että parhaat yritykset ovat etheisesti liittyviä? Tietysti on paljon erilaisia, mutta tietävätkö joitain, kuten Sundar Pichais, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Maltmans ja Elon Musks, etteivät he ole etheisesti motivoituneita?

sanotaan, että meillä oli pari parhaista vuotta elämäämme. Missä Sam Altman sopii siihen ja Elon Muskin samalla tavalla? Pitäisivätkö ihmiset ajatella, että hän on missionaaminen, hän on kiinni, mutta uskon hänen missionaan ja minulla on pari parhaista vuotta elämääni?

Se on enemmän nuoria Billia ja nykyistä Elon-tekniikkaa. Jussi Latvala Mielestäni, kun mietit investointipalveluista ja tietoja, jos olet todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin todellakin

Viisi vuosia sitten te olette olleet hyvin julkisessa kontratompissa. Onko sellainen tunne, että jos sinä et ole missio-kriittinen, hän jatketaan? Ja onko se vaikutusta? Jos sinä et ole useampi missiosta, hän ei ole niin kiinnostunut sinua. Onko sellainen tunne, että kun ajattelet, että se on yritys, jossa olisit varmasti sanonut ihmisille, että suosittelen sinulle mennä ja työskennellä siellä? Olen ollut vuosien aikana keskustelussa ihmisten kanssa, joilla olisi mahdollisuus työskennellä Teslailla tai SpaceXilla. Mitä sanoisit heille?