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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

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

And what happened is eBay people started using it. And I remember the first week in the conversation at PayPal was, who are these eBay people? Should we stop them from using our product? And it was like, no, no, no, those are our customers. None of these people are our customers. Those are our customers. We're going to pivot entirely towards them.

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 what happened is eBay people started using it. And I remember the first week in the conversation at PayPal was, who are these eBay people? Should we stop them from using our product? And it was like, no, no, no, those are our customers. None of these people are our customers. Those are our customers. We're going to pivot entirely towards them.

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 what happened is eBay people started using it. And I remember the first week in the conversation at PayPal was, who are these eBay people? Should we stop them from using our product? And it was like, no, no, no, those are our customers. None of these people are our customers. Those are our customers. We're going to pivot entirely towards them.

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 what happened is eBay people started using it. And I remember the first week in the conversation at PayPal was, who are these eBay people? Should we stop them from using our product? And it was like, no, no, no, those are our customers. None of these people are our customers. Those are our customers. We're going to pivot entirely towards them.

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 what happened is eBay people started using it. And I remember the first week in the conversation at PayPal was, who are these eBay people? Should we stop them from using our product? And it was like, no, no, no, those are our customers. None of these people are our customers. Those are our customers. We're going to pivot entirely towards them.

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 your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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 your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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 your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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 your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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 your speed of learning it and deploying it and scaling it is the game.

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 so pivoting towards opportunities, seeing what happens. And sometimes, by the way, it's like, oh, you've been working on the software product and now AI's here. And you're like, okay, I'm going to do AI. Yeah, I know I did this last 18 months of work. Maybe three months of it's recoverable because that's the 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

And so pivoting towards opportunities, seeing what happens. And sometimes, by the way, it's like, oh, you've been working on the software product and now AI's here. And you're like, okay, I'm going to do AI. Yeah, I know I did this last 18 months of work. Maybe three months of it's recoverable because that's the 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

And so pivoting towards opportunities, seeing what happens. And sometimes, by the way, it's like, oh, you've been working on the software product and now AI's here. And you're like, okay, I'm going to do AI. Yeah, I know I did this last 18 months of work. Maybe three months of it's recoverable because that's the 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

And so pivoting towards opportunities, seeing what happens. And sometimes, by the way, it's like, oh, you've been working on the software product and now AI's here. And you're like, okay, I'm going to do AI. Yeah, I know I did this last 18 months of work. Maybe three months of it's recoverable because that's the 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

And so pivoting towards opportunities, seeing what happens. And sometimes, by the way, it's like, oh, you've been working on the software product and now AI's here. And you're like, okay, I'm going to do AI. Yeah, I know I did this last 18 months of work. Maybe three months of it's recoverable because that's the 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

And that pivoting towards big new opportunities is one of the things that really creates these successful businesses. Because we want to tell this heroic story where she or he had this original vision that came down from on high and they came down with the two stone tablets. And they said, I've got this vision that goes on forever. And that's the reason I'm a genius.

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 that pivoting towards big new opportunities is one of the things that really creates these successful businesses. Because we want to tell this heroic story where she or he had this original vision that came down from on high and they came down with the two stone tablets. And they said, I've got this vision that goes on forever. And that's the reason I'm a genius.

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 that pivoting towards big new opportunities is one of the things that really creates these successful businesses. Because we want to tell this heroic story where she or he had this original vision that came down from on high and they came down with the two stone tablets. And they said, I've got this vision that goes on forever. And that's the reason I'm a genius.

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 that pivoting towards big new opportunities is one of the things that really creates these successful businesses. Because we want to tell this heroic story where she or he had this original vision that came down from on high and they came down with the two stone tablets. And they said, I've got this vision that goes on forever. And that's the reason I'm a genius.