391: Reid Hoffman on The PayPal Mafia, Sellin...

Rob Ward exited Quad Lock last year for half a billion dollars. He never took a cent of outside investment to build it, was profitable every single month from day one, and ran the business with a skeleton team for years while competitors burned cash chasing scale. His first produ ...  Show more

I have never said this directly on the show before, but shiny object syndrome did not cost me months. It cost me years. Entire years where the Foundr team was spread across five or six initiatives instead of going deep on one or two. And the worst part is it never felt like a mis ...  Show more

Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) is a co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and co-author of Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs. What We Discuss with Reid Hoffman: What Reid means wh ...  Show more

Few figures have shaped the way we think about business over the past 20 years more than Reid Hoffman. The co-founder of LinkedIn and former PayPal executive is also a wildly successful venture capitalist, author and podcaster, but he didn’t get to his place as a Silicon Valley g ...  Show more

Reid Hoffman is the Founder of LinkedIn, founding member of Paypal, early investor in Airbnb And Facebook.He is the co-host of the ‘Possible’ Podcast and best-selling author of books such as, ‘Masters of Scale’ and ‘Blitzscaling’.  In this conversation, Reid and Steven discuss t ...  Show more

In this week's episode of the Rich Habits Podcast, Robert Croak and Austin Hankwitz sit down with Reid Hoffman.

Reid was part of the "PayPal Mafia" from back in the late-90s. He sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. A few months later, Reid co-foun ...