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Reid Hoffman

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Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

You know, when you look around our lives and all the things in it, it was earlier entrepreneurs that we were building upon their work.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So a lot of the writings I've done are all the learnings from mistakes. There was almost never anything like I just got it right the first time. It was that you iterated at speed and you kept adapting and you kept learning. And that's one of the rules of entrepreneurship is always be learning.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So a lot of the writings I've done are all the learnings from mistakes. There was almost never anything like I just got it right the first time. It was that you iterated at speed and you kept adapting and you kept learning. And that's one of the rules of entrepreneurship is always be learning.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So a lot of the writings I've done are all the learnings from mistakes. There was almost never anything like I just got it right the first time. It was that you iterated at speed and you kept adapting and you kept learning. And that's one of the rules of entrepreneurship is always be learning.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So a lot of the writings I've done are all the learnings from mistakes. There was almost never anything like I just got it right the first time. It was that you iterated at speed and you kept adapting and you kept learning. And that's one of the rules of entrepreneurship is always be learning.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So a lot of the writings I've done are all the learnings from mistakes. There was almost never anything like I just got it right the first time. It was that you iterated at speed and you kept adapting and you kept learning. And that's one of the rules of entrepreneurship is always be learning.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So SocialNet, you know, I started with kind of this theory of, oh, I've learned how to create software products. I know what a really good thing would be. I've got a great product idea. Let me go raise some venture capital. Let me release the product.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So SocialNet, you know, I started with kind of this theory of, oh, I've learned how to create software products. I know what a really good thing would be. I've got a great product idea. Let me go raise some venture capital. Let me release the product.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So SocialNet, you know, I started with kind of this theory of, oh, I've learned how to create software products. I know what a really good thing would be. I've got a great product idea. Let me go raise some venture capital. Let me release the product.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So SocialNet, you know, I started with kind of this theory of, oh, I've learned how to create software products. I know what a really good thing would be. I've got a great product idea. Let me go raise some venture capital. Let me release the product.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So SocialNet, you know, I started with kind of this theory of, oh, I've learned how to create software products. I know what a really good thing would be. I've got a great product idea. Let me go raise some venture capital. Let me release the product.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So when you start a business, you should think about this as a kind of probabilities of outcomes. So I did think that LinkedIn could become what it is today. I actually even think things that were, could be bigger and could be on path. And you could be asking me this question in five years when I achieved a bunch of new things. And I would also say, hey, yes, this is possible.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So when you start a business, you should think about this as a kind of probabilities of outcomes. So I did think that LinkedIn could become what it is today. I actually even think things that were, could be bigger and could be on path. And you could be asking me this question in five years when I achieved a bunch of new things. And I would also say, hey, yes, this is possible.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So when you start a business, you should think about this as a kind of probabilities of outcomes. So I did think that LinkedIn could become what it is today. I actually even think things that were, could be bigger and could be on path. And you could be asking me this question in five years when I achieved a bunch of new things. And I would also say, hey, yes, this is possible.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So when you start a business, you should think about this as a kind of probabilities of outcomes. So I did think that LinkedIn could become what it is today. I actually even think things that were, could be bigger and could be on path. And you could be asking me this question in five years when I achieved a bunch of new things. And I would also say, hey, yes, this is possible.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

So when you start a business, you should think about this as a kind of probabilities of outcomes. So I did think that LinkedIn could become what it is today. I actually even think things that were, could be bigger and could be on path. And you could be asking me this question in five years when I achieved a bunch of new things. And I would also say, hey, yes, this is possible.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

Well, a huge number of things, everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet, because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out. And when we released, we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

Well, a huge number of things, everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet, because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out. And when we released, we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

Well, a huge number of things, everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet, because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out. And when we released, we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Co-Founder on Building and Scaling Massively Valuable Companies Fast | Entrepreneurship | E332

Well, a huge number of things, everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet, because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out. And when we released, we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.