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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

Exactly.

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 obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

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 obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

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 obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

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 obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

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 obviously people are familiar with pivots because it's not working, right? And there's different ways to get to the conclusion before it totally is a train wreck. You want to make the decision that's not working before the train wreck happens, you know, change tracks. But one of the things that people underdescribe is a pivot to a new opportunity.

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

Otherwise, you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship. Doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers? How do you go, which things? And that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way to do it. Because

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

Otherwise, you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship. Doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers? How do you go, which things? And that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way to do it. Because

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

Otherwise, you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship. Doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers? How do you go, which things? And that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way to do it. Because

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

Otherwise, you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship. Doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers? How do you go, which things? And that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way to do it. Because

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

Otherwise, you shouldn't be doing the product side of entrepreneurship. Doing something else. But the right thing is, how do you learn from your customers? How do you go, which things? And that's part of the reason why minimum viable product, product market fit, all of these things, you know, kind of testing your hypotheses, using other data as a way to do it. Because

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

And in some sense, this is the PayPal story that we were talking about a little earlier. Because they said, well, we have this really great, unique technology. And now we're figuring out that it's not really going to work. And we're pivoting away from it because it's hard to get to market. And then what happened is you release this kind of Palm Pilot plus a synchronizing payment service.

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

And in some sense, this is the PayPal story that we were talking about a little earlier. Because they said, well, we have this really great, unique technology. And now we're figuring out that it's not really going to work. And we're pivoting away from it because it's hard to get to market. And then what happened is you release this kind of Palm Pilot plus a synchronizing payment service.

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

And in some sense, this is the PayPal story that we were talking about a little earlier. Because they said, well, we have this really great, unique technology. And now we're figuring out that it's not really going to work. And we're pivoting away from it because it's hard to get to market. And then what happened is you release this kind of Palm Pilot plus a synchronizing payment service.

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

And in some sense, this is the PayPal story that we were talking about a little earlier. Because they said, well, we have this really great, unique technology. And now we're figuring out that it's not really going to work. And we're pivoting away from it because it's hard to get to market. And then what happened is you release this kind of Palm Pilot plus a synchronizing payment service.

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

And in some sense, this is the PayPal story that we were talking about a little earlier. Because they said, well, we have this really great, unique technology. And now we're figuring out that it's not really going to work. And we're pivoting away from it because it's hard to get to market. And then what happened is you release this kind of Palm Pilot plus a synchronizing payment service.

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

if it's speed to market and speed to learning. And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs, is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great.

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

if it's speed to market and speed to learning. And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs, is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great.

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

if it's speed to market and speed to learning. And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs, is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great.

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

if it's speed to market and speed to learning. And part of the reason why embarrassment is because our natural instinct as people, as entrepreneurs, is we want you to tell us, oh my God, we love what you did. And actually, in fact, you want them to grow to love what you did. And obviously the more they love it at the beginning, that's great.