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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

This is, I guess, bridging into our AI discussion. The thing that happens that we've learned with entrepreneurship is new technologies completely change industries. Sometimes every industry, like AI with general purpose technologies and the parallel between chat GBT models and general purpose technology is always something I find a little entertaining.

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 you're really going to hire slow, you better be hiring all the time so that your pace of hiring isn't matched. Not like, oh, I need a person now. I'm going to start looking. It's like, I start recruiting for people I think I'm going to need six to 12 months from now today, as an instance. And so that team sport is really important, but it's not just the employees.

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 you're really going to hire slow, you better be hiring all the time so that your pace of hiring isn't matched. Not like, oh, I need a person now. I'm going to start looking. It's like, I start recruiting for people I think I'm going to need six to 12 months from now today, as an instance. And so that team sport is really important, but it's not just the employees.

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 you're really going to hire slow, you better be hiring all the time so that your pace of hiring isn't matched. Not like, oh, I need a person now. I'm going to start looking. It's like, I start recruiting for people I think I'm going to need six to 12 months from now today, as an instance. And so that team sport is really important, but it's not just the employees.

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 you're really going to hire slow, you better be hiring all the time so that your pace of hiring isn't matched. Not like, oh, I need a person now. I'm going to start looking. It's like, I start recruiting for people I think I'm going to need six to 12 months from now today, as an instance. And so that team sport is really important, but it's not just the employees.

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 you're really going to hire slow, you better be hiring all the time so that your pace of hiring isn't matched. Not like, oh, I need a person now. I'm going to start looking. It's like, I start recruiting for people I think I'm going to need six to 12 months from now today, as an instance. And so that team sport is really important, but it's not just the employees.

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 you look at these technology changes as changes in market landscapes. It changes in how, what the real shape of product and services are going to be. It changes in how companies operate. It changes in what business models are available and all of these things. So you really look, even if you're not yourself,

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 you look at these technology changes as changes in market landscapes. It changes in how, what the real shape of product and services are going to be. It changes in how companies operate. It changes in what business models are available and all of these things. So you really look, even if you're not yourself,

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 you look at these technology changes as changes in market landscapes. It changes in how, what the real shape of product and services are going to be. It changes in how companies operate. It changes in what business models are available and all of these things. So you really look, even if you're not yourself,

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 you look at these technology changes as changes in market landscapes. It changes in how, what the real shape of product and services are going to be. It changes in how companies operate. It changes in what business models are available and all of these things. So you really look, even if you're not yourself,

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 you look at these technology changes as changes in market landscapes. It changes in how, what the real shape of product and services are going to be. It changes in how companies operate. It changes in what business models are available and all of these things. So you really look, even if you're not yourself,

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

It's also the people around you. So like the advice to give entrepreneurs is not to go up to people and say, Paula, what do you love about my idea? What do you think about my idea? Because, you know, I'm kind of asking, tell me good. So what's wrong with my idea? What thing could make it break to kind of learn from it? And so having those teams built around you outside your company is

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

It's also the people around you. So like the advice to give entrepreneurs is not to go up to people and say, Paula, what do you love about my idea? What do you think about my idea? Because, you know, I'm kind of asking, tell me good. So what's wrong with my idea? What thing could make it break to kind of learn from it? And so having those teams built around you outside your company is

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

It's also the people around you. So like the advice to give entrepreneurs is not to go up to people and say, Paula, what do you love about my idea? What do you think about my idea? Because, you know, I'm kind of asking, tell me good. So what's wrong with my idea? What thing could make it break to kind of learn from it? And so having those teams built around you outside your company is

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

It's also the people around you. So like the advice to give entrepreneurs is not to go up to people and say, Paula, what do you love about my idea? What do you think about my idea? Because, you know, I'm kind of asking, tell me good. So what's wrong with my idea? What thing could make it break to kind of learn from it? And so having those teams built around you outside your company is

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

It's also the people around you. So like the advice to give entrepreneurs is not to go up to people and say, Paula, what do you love about my idea? What do you think about my idea? Because, you know, I'm kind of asking, tell me good. So what's wrong with my idea? What thing could make it break to kind of learn from it? And so having those teams built around you outside your company is

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

Purely the technology company, you're looking for changes in the technological landscape because fundamentally, if you don't have a technology strategy, it's not an IT strategy, it's not am I using PCs or Macs or iOS things, it's a technology strategy and that you're going to need to evolve with.

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

Purely the technology company, you're looking for changes in the technological landscape because fundamentally, if you don't have a technology strategy, it's not an IT strategy, it's not am I using PCs or Macs or iOS things, it's a technology strategy and that you're going to need to evolve with.

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

Purely the technology company, you're looking for changes in the technological landscape because fundamentally, if you don't have a technology strategy, it's not an IT strategy, it's not am I using PCs or Macs or iOS things, it's a technology strategy and that you're going to need to evolve with.

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

Purely the technology company, you're looking for changes in the technological landscape because fundamentally, if you don't have a technology strategy, it's not an IT strategy, it's not am I using PCs or Macs or iOS things, it's a technology strategy and that you're going to need to evolve with.