PandoMonthly Presents: A Fireside Chat with Reid Hoffman

I am tremendously excited about this month's PandoMonthly San Francisco. Our guest is Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, and investor in everything from Facebook to Zynga to Groupon. Beyond monetary success, Hoffman is a striking figure in the Valley, because he's an incredibly nice guy and a generous mentor. Those don't always go hand-in-hand. And he's not... [read more]

I am tremendously excited about this month's PandoMonthly San Francisco. Our guest is Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, and investor in everything from Facebook to Zynga to Groupon. Beyond monetary success, Hoffman is a striking figure in the Valley, because he's an incredibly nice guy and a generous mentor. Those don't always go hand-in-hand. And he's not one of those entrepreneurs who comes up with the idea, then passes the company off to someone else to do the hard work. Witness his incredibly long, almost tedious slog to build LinkedIn into the Web giant it is today. It is one of the only early social networks that survived, and one of the only big IPOs of late to perform well in the aftermarket. As I wrote back at the time of LinkedIn's IPO, Hoffman is the entrepreneur that people should seek to emulate. From that post: Hoffman wasn’t in his early twenties or a college dropout, and he’d be the first to admit he wasn’t a natural CEO. He’s said in previous interviews that he has a hard time firing people quickly enough

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