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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

Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.

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

But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.

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

But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.

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

But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.

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

But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.

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

But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing. Can we solve that one later because which the ordering of problems that we need to solve? And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing. Can we solve that one later because which the ordering of problems that we need to solve? And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing. Can we solve that one later because which the ordering of problems that we need to solve? And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing. Can we solve that one later because which the ordering of problems that we need to solve? And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing. Can we solve that one later because which the ordering of problems that we need to solve? And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is this thing that's paradoxically called technology.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is this thing that's paradoxically called technology.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is this thing that's paradoxically called technology.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is this thing that's paradoxically called technology.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is this thing that's paradoxically called technology.

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

Paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing, and you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking.

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

Paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing, and you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking.

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

Paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing, and you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking.

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

Paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing, and you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking.