Reid Hoffman
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And these are all the different tool sets that you create for your particular business, your particular founders, management team, product market fit, competition landscape, et cetera, because it's not one culture, one size fits all. But being intentional is very important.
And so in all of these fields, you have advantages. Now, you might also have a business with network effects, where those network effects become a really important, growing, super linear kind of competitive moat, whether it's like Airbnb or Uber or others, LinkedIn, or if it's just a, well, I'm ahead, and so by default,
And so in all of these fields, you have advantages. Now, you might also have a business with network effects, where those network effects become a really important, growing, super linear kind of competitive moat, whether it's like Airbnb or Uber or others, LinkedIn, or if it's just a, well, I'm ahead, and so by default,
And so in all of these fields, you have advantages. Now, you might also have a business with network effects, where those network effects become a really important, growing, super linear kind of competitive moat, whether it's like Airbnb or Uber or others, LinkedIn, or if it's just a, well, I'm ahead, and so by default,
And so in all of these fields, you have advantages. Now, you might also have a business with network effects, where those network effects become a really important, growing, super linear kind of competitive moat, whether it's like Airbnb or Uber or others, LinkedIn, or if it's just a, well, I'm ahead, and so by default,
And so in all of these fields, you have advantages. Now, you might also have a business with network effects, where those network effects become a really important, growing, super linear kind of competitive moat, whether it's like Airbnb or Uber or others, LinkedIn, or if it's just a, well, I'm ahead, and so by default,
all of the different forces that come together to make a company successful are more aligned in believing you're number one. Because part of what entrepreneurship does is I have this vision, it's currently non-operative, I'm persuading multiple different constituencies to come invest in my vision. It could be investors with money. It can be employees with their time and ownership.
all of the different forces that come together to make a company successful are more aligned in believing you're number one. Because part of what entrepreneurship does is I have this vision, it's currently non-operative, I'm persuading multiple different constituencies to come invest in my vision. It could be investors with money. It can be employees with their time and ownership.
all of the different forces that come together to make a company successful are more aligned in believing you're number one. Because part of what entrepreneurship does is I have this vision, it's currently non-operative, I'm persuading multiple different constituencies to come invest in my vision. It could be investors with money. It can be employees with their time and ownership.
all of the different forces that come together to make a company successful are more aligned in believing you're number one. Because part of what entrepreneurship does is I have this vision, it's currently non-operative, I'm persuading multiple different constituencies to come invest in my vision. It could be investors with money. It can be employees with their time and ownership.
all of the different forces that come together to make a company successful are more aligned in believing you're number one. Because part of what entrepreneurship does is I have this vision, it's currently non-operative, I'm persuading multiple different constituencies to come invest in my vision. It could be investors with money. It can be employees with their time and ownership.
It could be press with their belief in what's going to happen. It can be customers who go, okay, you're a startup, but I'm going to start using you now anyway because I believe you will be the right thing in the future. All of these things is what you do as an entrepreneur is you persuade people to come and help build your vision.
It could be press with their belief in what's going to happen. It can be customers who go, okay, you're a startup, but I'm going to start using you now anyway because I believe you will be the right thing in the future. All of these things is what you do as an entrepreneur is you persuade people to come and help build your vision.
It could be press with their belief in what's going to happen. It can be customers who go, okay, you're a startup, but I'm going to start using you now anyway because I believe you will be the right thing in the future. All of these things is what you do as an entrepreneur is you persuade people to come and help build your vision.
It could be press with their belief in what's going to happen. It can be customers who go, okay, you're a startup, but I'm going to start using you now anyway because I believe you will be the right thing in the future. All of these things is what you do as an entrepreneur is you persuade people to come and help build your vision.
It could be press with their belief in what's going to happen. It can be customers who go, okay, you're a startup, but I'm going to start using you now anyway because I believe you will be the right thing in the future. All of these things is what you do as an entrepreneur is you persuade people to come and help build your vision.
Well, first mover to scale gives you all kinds of advantage. It doesn't actually necessarily need to be first mover out of the gate, but the first mover to scale part of blitzscaling is really critical. Now, sometimes, by the way, the way that you become first mover to scale is you're the first mover out the gate because you just keep going.
Well, first mover to scale gives you all kinds of advantage. It doesn't actually necessarily need to be first mover out of the gate, but the first mover to scale part of blitzscaling is really critical. Now, sometimes, by the way, the way that you become first mover to scale is you're the first mover out the gate because you just keep going.
Well, first mover to scale gives you all kinds of advantage. It doesn't actually necessarily need to be first mover out of the gate, but the first mover to scale part of blitzscaling is really critical. Now, sometimes, by the way, the way that you become first mover to scale is you're the first mover out the gate because you just keep going.
Well, first mover to scale gives you all kinds of advantage. It doesn't actually necessarily need to be first mover out of the gate, but the first mover to scale part of blitzscaling is really critical. Now, sometimes, by the way, the way that you become first mover to scale is you're the first mover out the gate because you just keep going.