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Reid Hoffman

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

Everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out and when we released. we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.

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

Everything from, you know, if you're not embarrassed by your product release, you've released too late relative to software and consumer internet because I thought I would polish it and get it just so right and beautiful before getting out and when we released. we quickly discovered half the things we'd spent months on were completely useless.

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

Because again, it was kind of this, don't just build something because it's an interesting product. What's the market need? How are you getting into it? And so there were just tons and tons of experiences. I'd say one of the central things that I learned about entrepreneurship from PayPal was the speed of execution, the speed of making decisions.

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

Because again, it was kind of this, don't just build something because it's an interesting product. What's the market need? How are you getting into it? And so there were just tons and tons of experiences. I'd say one of the central things that I learned about entrepreneurship from PayPal was the speed of execution, the speed of making decisions.

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

Because again, it was kind of this, don't just build something because it's an interesting product. What's the market need? How are you getting into it? And so there were just tons and tons of experiences. I'd say one of the central things that I learned about entrepreneurship from PayPal was the speed of execution, the speed of making decisions.

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

Because again, it was kind of this, don't just build something because it's an interesting product. What's the market need? How are you getting into it? And so there were just tons and tons of experiences. I'd say one of the central things that I learned about entrepreneurship from PayPal was the speed of execution, the speed of making decisions.

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

Because again, it was kind of this, don't just build something because it's an interesting product. What's the market need? How are you getting into it? And so there were just tons and tons of experiences. I'd say one of the central things that I learned about entrepreneurship from PayPal was the speed of execution, the speed of making decisions.

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

We'd thought that the game was entirely about, well, did we have a vision for product quality? And we didn't spend that much time thinking about our go-to-market strategy, which is fundamental to entrepreneurship. And so it was just failure after failure and recovery.

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

We'd thought that the game was entirely about, well, did we have a vision for product quality? And we didn't spend that much time thinking about our go-to-market strategy, which is fundamental to entrepreneurship. And so it was just failure after failure and recovery.

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

We'd thought that the game was entirely about, well, did we have a vision for product quality? And we didn't spend that much time thinking about our go-to-market strategy, which is fundamental to entrepreneurship. And so it was just failure after failure and recovery.

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

We'd thought that the game was entirely about, well, did we have a vision for product quality? And we didn't spend that much time thinking about our go-to-market strategy, which is fundamental to entrepreneurship. And so it was just failure after failure and recovery.

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

We'd thought that the game was entirely about, well, did we have a vision for product quality? And we didn't spend that much time thinking about our go-to-market strategy, which is fundamental to entrepreneurship. And so it was just failure after failure and recovery.

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

But the two ways that I kind of came to learn to summarize this was, one, is I perhaps never learned so much in my life except for between the ages of two and three, because you're falling over and learning it and standing back up. And then the other one is every Friday, there were things I wish I had known on Monday.

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

But the two ways that I kind of came to learn to summarize this was, one, is I perhaps never learned so much in my life except for between the ages of two and three, because you're falling over and learning it and standing back up. And then the other one is every Friday, there were things I wish I had known on Monday.

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

But the two ways that I kind of came to learn to summarize this was, one, is I perhaps never learned so much in my life except for between the ages of two and three, because you're falling over and learning it and standing back up. And then the other one is every Friday, there were things I wish I had known on Monday.

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

But the two ways that I kind of came to learn to summarize this was, one, is I perhaps never learned so much in my life except for between the ages of two and three, because you're falling over and learning it and standing back up. And then the other one is every Friday, there were things I wish I had known on Monday.

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

But the two ways that I kind of came to learn to summarize this was, one, is I perhaps never learned so much in my life except for between the ages of two and three, because you're falling over and learning it and standing back up. And then the other one is every Friday, there were things I wish I had known on Monday.

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

And so one of the things, I mean, there was a whole stack. Again, we could take this entire podcast, things I learned from SocialNet, things I learned from PayPal, things I learned, you know, like just each one of them. But part of the thing was basically I kind of adopted there, which I wish I'd had at SocialNet,

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

And so one of the things, I mean, there was a whole stack. Again, we could take this entire podcast, things I learned from SocialNet, things I learned from PayPal, things I learned, you know, like just each one of them. But part of the thing was basically I kind of adopted there, which I wish I'd had at SocialNet,

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

And so one of the things, I mean, there was a whole stack. Again, we could take this entire podcast, things I learned from SocialNet, things I learned from PayPal, things I learned, you know, like just each one of them. But part of the thing was basically I kind of adopted there, which I wish I'd had at SocialNet,