Reid Hoffman

speaker

1,774 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 19 Jun

Reid Hoffman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

But this notion of gen AI became the thing that we kind of conflated.

Yeah, that was what's new.

And so was it just a natural inkling?

I mean, did you see the future then?

I mean, was it just a major that started to present itself?

No one else was in the class and you figured, hey, I couldn't get in the other class.

I get an A on this one.

No, it was... So what...

People assume, people in my kind of role, and many people in my kind of role are fascinated by technology.

I'm not.

I'm fascinated by human beings.

And so what I was interested in was human thought and human language.

And so how do we understand ourselves?

How do we understand each other?

How do we communicate?

How do we get to a better understanding, talking to each other, et cetera, et cetera?

And that was what most interested me.

And so, like, I looked at, you know, do I do anthropology or psychology?

Like, I was looking at the whole range.

But I was like, what's the thing that in doing this, I could actually make the most interesting things?

Showing 441–460 of 1,774 · page 23 of 89