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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

You definitely keep a vibrant culture and high performance and high quality talent. The nature of the game changes as you change size.

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

You definitely keep a vibrant culture and high performance and high quality talent. The nature of the game changes as you change size.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing, can we solve that one later? Because the ordering of problems that we need to solve. And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing, can we solve that one later? Because the ordering of problems that we need to solve. And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing, can we solve that one later? Because the ordering of problems that we need to solve. And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing, can we solve that one later? Because the ordering of problems that we need to solve. And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

Another one is to think about, all right, even if it's painful to solve something later, like, for example, we were talking about the Uber hiring thing, can we solve that one later? Because the ordering of problems that we need to solve. And some of the risk is we're not going to solve that problem right now. We're not going to be able to measure it right now.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is, This thing that's paradoxically called paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is, This thing that's paradoxically called paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is, This thing that's paradoxically called paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is, This thing that's paradoxically called paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing.

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

The only way to really measure this is to do it. One of the things that modern consumer internet mobile entrepreneurs have learned is, This thing that's paradoxically called paper testing, which is you put up an ad and you say, here's our thing.

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

Well, there's a couple of quick hacks on every major decision, maybe not surprising from the co-founder of LinkedIn, is I think, who are the three to five people I'd most want to talk to about this? Because it's kind of like, where would they give me knowledge, expertise, different cognitive tool set, different analytic framework, et cetera?

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

Well, there's a couple of quick hacks on every major decision, maybe not surprising from the co-founder of LinkedIn, is I think, who are the three to five people I'd most want to talk to about this? Because it's kind of like, where would they give me knowledge, expertise, different cognitive tool set, different analytic framework, et cetera?

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

Well, there's a couple of quick hacks on every major decision, maybe not surprising from the co-founder of LinkedIn, is I think, who are the three to five people I'd most want to talk to about this? Because it's kind of like, where would they give me knowledge, expertise, different cognitive tool set, different analytic framework, et cetera?

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

Well, there's a couple of quick hacks on every major decision, maybe not surprising from the co-founder of LinkedIn, is I think, who are the three to five people I'd most want to talk to about this? Because it's kind of like, where would they give me knowledge, expertise, different cognitive tool set, different analytic framework, et cetera?

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

Well, there's a couple of quick hacks on every major decision, maybe not surprising from the co-founder of LinkedIn, is I think, who are the three to five people I'd most want to talk to about this? Because it's kind of like, where would they give me knowledge, expertise, different cognitive tool set, different analytic framework, et cetera?

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

And you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking. Which low-cost things can you do, talking to someone, taking a paper ad, doing other things, can I do to de-risk this?

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

And you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking. Which low-cost things can you do, talking to someone, taking a paper ad, doing other things, can I do to de-risk this?

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

And you see what the click-through is, even though you don't have anything behind the ad because you're measuring it and trying to get data because you're trying to figure out what the thing is. This is the toolbox of the cost of de-risking. Which low-cost things can you do, talking to someone, taking a paper ad, doing other things, can I do to de-risk this?