Reid Hoffman

Lots. We could have a whole show on advice, but I'll say with one of the things my dad said to me when I was a kid, which is, he said, the difficulty of making decisions is that in the short term, it reduces your opportunity set because you've made a decision, but it's the only way you have long-term opportunity.

Lots. We could have a whole show on advice, but I'll say with one of the things my dad said to me when I was a kid, which is, he said, the difficulty of making decisions is that in the short term, it reduces your opportunity set because you've made a decision, but it's the only way you have long-term opportunity.

Lots. We could have a whole show on advice, but I'll say with one of the things my dad said to me when I was a kid, which is, he said, the difficulty of making decisions is that in the short term, it reduces your opportunity set because you've made a decision, but it's the only way you have long-term opportunity.

A pleasure as always. I look forward to the next in my next trip to London.

A pleasure as always. I look forward to the next in my next trip to London.

A pleasure as always. I look forward to the next in my next trip to London.

President Trump was threatening personal and political retaliation because I tried to help Harris get elected.

President Trump was threatening personal and political retaliation because I tried to help Harris get elected.

One is you have to understand that you don't get to an optimistic future by trying to avoid failure. When we started LinkedIn, everyone said, this won't work. But just because you don't have 100% chances of succeeding doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it. But there's also a set of skills that are rare that you can actually teach to entrepreneurs that makes you much more likely to be successful.

One is you have to understand that you don't get to an optimistic future by trying to avoid failure. When we started LinkedIn, everyone said, this won't work. But just because you don't have 100% chances of succeeding doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it. But there's also a set of skills that are rare that you can actually teach to entrepreneurs that makes you much more likely to be successful.

One is, Reid, what is your take on AI? It gives us superpowers. Now, there will be costs to it, but like electricity, it does electrocute people, but it's essential for human society.

One is, Reid, what is your take on AI? It gives us superpowers. Now, there will be costs to it, but like electricity, it does electrocute people, but it's essential for human society.

That's interesting. I've never been asked that question before. Probably it's a combination of of the fact that my passion is who are we as human beings and where are we going? So like, that's from, from a very young age, like I've been like, and I think I got it by reading science fiction, right? It was kind of like, what is the scope of humanity?

That's interesting. I've never been asked that question before. Probably it's a combination of of the fact that my passion is who are we as human beings and where are we going? So like, that's from, from a very young age, like I've been like, and I think I got it by reading science fiction, right? It was kind of like, what is the scope of humanity?

Like, you know, Isaac Asimov's foundation and, you know, this kind of stuff. And then, um, I ended up growing up – I was born in the Stanford Hospital. I ended up growing up in Silicon Valley. And so I got the exposure to technology can change the world. And so focusing on thinking about kind of this intersection of humanity and technology and, of course, obviously science fiction has some –

Like, you know, Isaac Asimov's foundation and, you know, this kind of stuff. And then, um, I ended up growing up – I was born in the Stanford Hospital. I ended up growing up in Silicon Valley. And so I got the exposure to technology can change the world. And so focusing on thinking about kind of this intersection of humanity and technology and, of course, obviously science fiction has some –

play to that too although most of the technology in science fiction is just fiction right it's just like we have wormholes and we do intergalactic travel it's like as far as we know there is no such thing as wormholes for intergalactic travel right i mean all current contemporary theory of physics would suggest that there isn't i mean there may be wormholes but they're not for you know put your star trek spaceship in it and go somewhere and then probably the other part of it is

play to that too although most of the technology in science fiction is just fiction right it's just like we have wormholes and we do intergalactic travel it's like as far as we know there is no such thing as wormholes for intergalactic travel right i mean all current contemporary theory of physics would suggest that there isn't i mean there may be wormholes but they're not for you know put your star trek spaceship in it and go somewhere and then probably the other part of it is

I played a lot of board games when I was a kid, and so it gave me a very deep sense of strategy. And so approaching life, yeah, Zach, wow.

I played a lot of board games when I was a kid, and so it gave me a very deep sense of strategy. And so approaching life, yeah, Zach, wow.