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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

Right now versus Ms. Right in three to five years. Because again, with the learning curve, those are all things you're doing to go, go fast now, go fast now, go fast now, and iterate and change. And that's part of why Silicon Valley is produces just transformational technology companies for the world.

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

Right now versus Ms. Right in three to five years. Because again, with the learning curve, those are all things you're doing to go, go fast now, go fast now, go fast now, and iterate and change. And that's part of why Silicon Valley is produces just transformational technology companies for the world.

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

Yes, or any form of efficiency. One of the things that I learned remotely from Uber, because they were another blood-scaling company we covered elements of in the book, is one of the things when Uber's like, oh my God, we need to hire engineers really fast. So what they would do is they'd interview an engineer, reference check an engineer, and they'd offer engineer Sarah a job.

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

Yes, or any form of efficiency. One of the things that I learned remotely from Uber, because they were another blood-scaling company we covered elements of in the book, is one of the things when Uber's like, oh my God, we need to hire engineers really fast. So what they would do is they'd interview an engineer, reference check an engineer, and they'd offer engineer Sarah a job.

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

Yes, or any form of efficiency. One of the things that I learned remotely from Uber, because they were another blood-scaling company we covered elements of in the book, is one of the things when Uber's like, oh my God, we need to hire engineers really fast. So what they would do is they'd interview an engineer, reference check an engineer, and they'd offer engineer Sarah a job.

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

Yes, or any form of efficiency. One of the things that I learned remotely from Uber, because they were another blood-scaling company we covered elements of in the book, is one of the things when Uber's like, oh my God, we need to hire engineers really fast. So what they would do is they'd interview an engineer, reference check an engineer, and they'd offer engineer Sarah a job.

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

Yes, or any form of efficiency. One of the things that I learned remotely from Uber, because they were another blood-scaling company we covered elements of in the book, is one of the things when Uber's like, oh my God, we need to hire engineers really fast. So what they would do is they'd interview an engineer, reference check an engineer, and they'd offer engineer Sarah a job.

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

And then when they offer engineers here a job, they say, okay, well, we would like to interview with you. Who are the top three people you work with at your current company? And then just send those three people job offers. That's blitzscaling. Because it's like, well, maybe they're not going to really work out.

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

And then when they offer engineers here a job, they say, okay, well, we would like to interview with you. Who are the top three people you work with at your current company? And then just send those three people job offers. That's blitzscaling. Because it's like, well, maybe they're not going to really work out.

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

And then when they offer engineers here a job, they say, okay, well, we would like to interview with you. Who are the top three people you work with at your current company? And then just send those three people job offers. That's blitzscaling. Because it's like, well, maybe they're not going to really work out.

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

And then when they offer engineers here a job, they say, okay, well, we would like to interview with you. Who are the top three people you work with at your current company? And then just send those three people job offers. That's blitzscaling. Because it's like, well, maybe they're not going to really work out.

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

And then when they offer engineers here a job, they say, okay, well, we would like to interview with you. Who are the top three people you work with at your current company? And then just send those three people job offers. That's blitzscaling. Because it's like, well, maybe they're not going to really work out.

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

People think it's a little weird and creepy that they got a job offer out of the blue with a pitch. But it's part of the going fast. And so it's not just profitability. It's efficiency in everything.

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

People think it's a little weird and creepy that they got a job offer out of the blue with a pitch. But it's part of the going fast. And so it's not just profitability. It's efficiency in everything.

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

People think it's a little weird and creepy that they got a job offer out of the blue with a pitch. But it's part of the going fast. And so it's not just profitability. It's efficiency in everything.

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

People think it's a little weird and creepy that they got a job offer out of the blue with a pitch. But it's part of the going fast. And so it's not just profitability. It's efficiency in everything.

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

People think it's a little weird and creepy that they got a job offer out of the blue with a pitch. But it's part of the going fast. And so it's not just profitability. It's efficiency in everything.

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

You have to intentionally try to do it. And by the way, Uber is an example of something that had a very chaotic and challenging company culture and had to refactor it to be a good, stable public company as you're getting. And the usual heuristic rule of thumb is that refactoring culture is actually, in fact, really hard. It is hard. It's not necessarily impossibly hard.

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

You have to intentionally try to do it. And by the way, Uber is an example of something that had a very chaotic and challenging company culture and had to refactor it to be a good, stable public company as you're getting. And the usual heuristic rule of thumb is that refactoring culture is actually, in fact, really hard. It is hard. It's not necessarily impossibly hard.

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

You have to intentionally try to do it. And by the way, Uber is an example of something that had a very chaotic and challenging company culture and had to refactor it to be a good, stable public company as you're getting. And the usual heuristic rule of thumb is that refactoring culture is actually, in fact, really hard. It is hard. It's not necessarily impossibly hard.