478: Reid Hoffman is an iconic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. Perhaps best known as the co-founder and former CEO of LinkedIn, he is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners, where he focuses on early-stage investing. He hosts the podcast, Masters of Scale. In this interview, we discuss:
Among a variety of other topics.
This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.
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I would take the great go-to-market idea because if I can get it there, I can use customer feedback and I can iterate the product. And there's a bunch of stuff I can do whereas if no one ever sees the product, it doesn't matter how good it is. If you can't get it to scale, it just doesn't matter.