Reid Hoffman
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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?
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?
And would I predict that that would be very helpful in this particular decision? And frequently, those people, while you have a lot of great people in your company, there's a lot of them who are in any particular decision outside your company. Right. And that's part of the thing of like, okay, what would it take to go get that? Would I get the right, what kind of information I get?
And would I predict that that would be very helpful in this particular decision? And frequently, those people, while you have a lot of great people in your company, there's a lot of them who are in any particular decision outside your company. Right. And that's part of the thing of like, okay, what would it take to go get that? Would I get the right, what kind of information I get?
And would I predict that that would be very helpful in this particular decision? And frequently, those people, while you have a lot of great people in your company, there's a lot of them who are in any particular decision outside your company. Right. And that's part of the thing of like, okay, what would it take to go get that? Would I get the right, what kind of information I get?
And would I predict that that would be very helpful in this particular decision? And frequently, those people, while you have a lot of great people in your company, there's a lot of them who are in any particular decision outside your company. Right. And that's part of the thing of like, okay, what would it take to go get that? Would I get the right, what kind of information I get?
And would I predict that that would be very helpful in this particular decision? And frequently, those people, while you have a lot of great people in your company, there's a lot of them who are in any particular decision outside your company. Right. And that's part of the thing of like, okay, what would it take to go get that? Would I get the right, what kind of information I get?
And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work. Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can.
And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work. Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can.
And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work. Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can.
And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work. Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can.
And then at the end of the day, you make the risk bet. Now, some of the red teaming thought is, well, if I'm wrong on this decision, what are my plans B? How do I recover? If I go, ooh, this one, we're just dead. Not, oh, it's painful. We're dead if it doesn't work. Oh, okay, well, let's invest a little bit more on the risk decision if we can.
Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.
Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.
Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.
Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.
Would I be unknown and I would try, et cetera. So that's one. Because analyzing the risks is knowing which only few things to focus on and which other things to really just ignore. Because one of the, as you know, split scaling rules are like embrace chaos and let fires burn because you're like, we'll solve that later. We don't have to solve everything right now. We can only focus on a few things.
But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.
But by the way, part of what startups do is you're making the bet. If you're not making the bet, you're ultimately going to fail.