Reid Hoffman

And those things I wish I'd known weren't person X is going to return your phone call or this partnership pitch won't work out. It's literally how to play the game, what to do. And so it was a tremendous learning experience, which of course means lots of scars, tissue, and a lot of blood on the floor. And I'd say that it was, you know, in Silicon Valley terms, a failure.

And those things I wish I'd known weren't person X is going to return your phone call or this partnership pitch won't work out. It's literally how to play the game, what to do. And so it was a tremendous learning experience, which of course means lots of scars, tissue, and a lot of blood on the floor. And I'd say that it was, you know, in Silicon Valley terms, a failure.

And so, yes, you know, there's learnings and we can go to the depths of which things I made mistakes on or which things turned out to be new surprises with LinkedIn. But I would say that we're within the probability set that I thought was possible.

And so, yes, you know, there's learnings and we can go to the depths of which things I made mistakes on or which things turned out to be new surprises with LinkedIn. But I would say that we're within the probability set that I thought was possible.

And so, yes, you know, there's learnings and we can go to the depths of which things I made mistakes on or which things turned out to be new surprises with LinkedIn. But I would say that we're within the probability set that I thought was possible.

And so, yes, you know, there's learnings and we can go to the depths of which things I made mistakes on or which things turned out to be new surprises with LinkedIn. But I would say that we're within the probability set that I thought was possible.

And so, yes, you know, there's learnings and we can go to the depths of which things I made mistakes on or which things turned out to be new surprises with LinkedIn. But I would say that we're within the probability set that I thought was possible.

We returned the investor's capital, but that was all we were able to do fundamentally.

We returned the investor's capital, but that was all we were able to do fundamentally.

We returned the investor's capital, but that was all we were able to do fundamentally.

We returned the investor's capital, but that was all we were able to do fundamentally.

We returned the investor's capital, but that was all we were able to do fundamentally.

So part of what happened is two friends of mine, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, came to me and said, hey, we're starting this business. You've been doing this for a year and a half with SocialNet. We'd really love you to join the board. We'll have you and Scott Bannister join the board. And could you do that? And I said, yes, because I've just gone through a year and a half of learning. every week.

So part of what happened is two friends of mine, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, came to me and said, hey, we're starting this business. You've been doing this for a year and a half with SocialNet. We'd really love you to join the board. We'll have you and Scott Bannister join the board. And could you do that? And I said, yes, because I've just gone through a year and a half of learning. every week.

So part of what happened is two friends of mine, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, came to me and said, hey, we're starting this business. You've been doing this for a year and a half with SocialNet. We'd really love you to join the board. We'll have you and Scott Bannister join the board. And could you do that? And I said, yes, because I've just gone through a year and a half of learning. every week.

So part of what happened is two friends of mine, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, came to me and said, hey, we're starting this business. You've been doing this for a year and a half with SocialNet. We'd really love you to join the board. We'll have you and Scott Bannister join the board. And could you do that? And I said, yes, because I've just gone through a year and a half of learning. every week.

So part of what happened is two friends of mine, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, came to me and said, hey, we're starting this business. You've been doing this for a year and a half with SocialNet. We'd really love you to join the board. We'll have you and Scott Bannister join the board. And could you do that? And I said, yes, because I've just gone through a year and a half of learning. every week.

And so a bunch of this stuff, PayPal had a initial booster pack on, which is all the various lists, which is hire people who are high talent and learners more than people who've had a ton of experience. I mean, they must know how to do the job, but as opposed to like, I've done this job for 10 years, it's, I've done this job for at least a year or two, and I'm an intense learner.

And so a bunch of this stuff, PayPal had a initial booster pack on, which is all the various lists, which is hire people who are high talent and learners more than people who've had a ton of experience. I mean, they must know how to do the job, but as opposed to like, I've done this job for 10 years, it's, I've done this job for at least a year or two, and I'm an intense learner.

And so a bunch of this stuff, PayPal had a initial booster pack on, which is all the various lists, which is hire people who are high talent and learners more than people who've had a ton of experience. I mean, they must know how to do the job, but as opposed to like, I've done this job for 10 years, it's, I've done this job for at least a year or two, and I'm an intense learner.