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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

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. And it's like, well, actually, in fact, a lot of things happen forever.

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

Again, we tend to tell these heroic myths of the individual entrepreneur where she or he is like, I am the person, the creator, the innovator, et cetera. And actually, in fact, all of these projects are the result of teamwork. There's almost nothing as an individual.

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

Again, we tend to tell these heroic myths of the individual entrepreneur where she or he is like, I am the person, the creator, the innovator, et cetera. And actually, in fact, all of these projects are the result of teamwork. There's almost nothing as an individual.

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

Again, we tend to tell these heroic myths of the individual entrepreneur where she or he is like, I am the person, the creator, the innovator, et cetera. And actually, in fact, all of these projects are the result of teamwork. There's almost nothing as an individual.

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

Again, we tend to tell these heroic myths of the individual entrepreneur where she or he is like, I am the person, the creator, the innovator, et cetera. And actually, in fact, all of these projects are the result of teamwork. There's almost nothing as an individual.

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

Again, we tend to tell these heroic myths of the individual entrepreneur where she or he is like, I am the person, the creator, the innovator, et cetera. And actually, in fact, all of these projects are the result of teamwork. There's almost nothing as an individual.

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

based on, well, I was in the game, I was learning, and I saw this new opportunity that emerged from a market, a technology, a set of things with competitors, and I moved towards that. Like for example, Google, its theory of when it launched its site was we're gonna sell enterprise search. That's our theory of the game. Then they saw, and then, oh, it's not working.

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

based on, well, I was in the game, I was learning, and I saw this new opportunity that emerged from a market, a technology, a set of things with competitors, and I moved towards that. Like for example, Google, its theory of when it launched its site was we're gonna sell enterprise search. That's our theory of the game. Then they saw, and then, oh, it's not working.

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

based on, well, I was in the game, I was learning, and I saw this new opportunity that emerged from a market, a technology, a set of things with competitors, and I moved towards that. Like for example, Google, its theory of when it launched its site was we're gonna sell enterprise search. That's our theory of the game. Then they saw, and then, oh, it's not working.

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

based on, well, I was in the game, I was learning, and I saw this new opportunity that emerged from a market, a technology, a set of things with competitors, and I moved towards that. Like for example, Google, its theory of when it launched its site was we're gonna sell enterprise search. That's our theory of the game. Then they saw, and then, oh, it's not working.

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

based on, well, I was in the game, I was learning, and I saw this new opportunity that emerged from a market, a technology, a set of things with competitors, and I moved towards that. Like for example, Google, its theory of when it launched its site was we're gonna sell enterprise search. That's our theory of the game. Then they saw, and then, oh, it's not working.

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, you know, part of the thing is you want to be, to some degree, the best entrepreneurs, the people who recruit and bring around them the most amazing teams who work with them for a long time. And actually, obviously, part of the thing is the truism tends to be hire slow, fire fast. hire slow, you can see how, you know, whether that works.

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, you know, part of the thing is you want to be, to some degree, the best entrepreneurs, the people who recruit and bring around them the most amazing teams who work with them for a long time. And actually, obviously, part of the thing is the truism tends to be hire slow, fire fast. hire slow, you can see how, you know, whether that works.

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, you know, part of the thing is you want to be, to some degree, the best entrepreneurs, the people who recruit and bring around them the most amazing teams who work with them for a long time. And actually, obviously, part of the thing is the truism tends to be hire slow, fire fast. hire slow, you can see how, you know, whether that works.

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, you know, part of the thing is you want to be, to some degree, the best entrepreneurs, the people who recruit and bring around them the most amazing teams who work with them for a long time. And actually, obviously, part of the thing is the truism tends to be hire slow, fire fast. hire slow, you can see how, you know, whether that works.

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, you know, part of the thing is you want to be, to some degree, the best entrepreneurs, the people who recruit and bring around them the most amazing teams who work with them for a long time. And actually, obviously, part of the thing is the truism tends to be hire slow, fire fast. hire slow, you can see how, you know, whether that works.

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

Oh, our backup plan is to put double-click ads on top of it. Oh, shit, the whole ad market went. What do we do? Oh, now we end at AdWords. And they pivoted from enterprise to consumer and then consumer to using elements that they'd seen from the market, but inventing their own version of how to make a really powerful business.

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

Oh, our backup plan is to put double-click ads on top of it. Oh, shit, the whole ad market went. What do we do? Oh, now we end at AdWords. And they pivoted from enterprise to consumer and then consumer to using elements that they'd seen from the market, but inventing their own version of how to make a really powerful business.

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

Oh, our backup plan is to put double-click ads on top of it. Oh, shit, the whole ad market went. What do we do? Oh, now we end at AdWords. And they pivoted from enterprise to consumer and then consumer to using elements that they'd seen from the market, but inventing their own version of how to make a really powerful business.

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

Oh, our backup plan is to put double-click ads on top of it. Oh, shit, the whole ad market went. What do we do? Oh, now we end at AdWords. And they pivoted from enterprise to consumer and then consumer to using elements that they'd seen from the market, but inventing their own version of how to make a really powerful business.