Linkedin Founder: Young Entrepreneurs Should Watch This | JHS Ep. 719

Reid Hoffman is a co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, host of the podcast Masters of Scale, and co-author of the fully revised and updated bestseller The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career.

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What We Discuss with Reid:
0:00 - Intro
0:06 - Think of your career as a startup, not work
6:48 - The cliché of "always be learning"
11:18 - Competitive differentiation
18:43 - Hard and soft assets
23:59 - The mistake of building hyper specialized skills
30:35 - Risk taking with joining startups
33:39 - Specializing in NEW skills
36:31 - 2 drills you should do now
40:08 - Exciting new things about blockchain (that isn't AI)
48:58 - How to predict successful ideas
53:55 - Why Reid didn't invest in Uber early
1:03:57 - Do you have a Plan A, B, and Z?
1:09:43 - Do this 1 day per month
1:11:04 - Why everyone should have an online brand
1:17:25 - Be like George Clooney

If you want to peer inside the mind of someone who’s been through the startup game more than a few times, Reid Hoffman is your guy. He’s a co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock Partners, and co-author of several books, including Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs, and the fully revised and updated bestseller The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. Appropriately enough, he’s also the host of the Masters of Scale podcast, which explores how the world’s most successful entrepreneurs take their companies from startup level to becoming household names.

But if you’re just trying to carve out a totally normal career for yourself in the working world, why should you care about advice from the perspective of a startup-savvy entrepreneur? Because there’s no such thing as a “totally normal” career anymore. On this episode, Reid rejoins us to discuss what you have to gain by approaching your career as a startup and adopting an entrepreneur’s point of view rather than that of an aspiring employee. Here, you’ll come to understand why adaptability is really the new stability that will ensure job security, and what you can do to become an indispensable asset rather than a disposable cog in the modern machinery of gainful employment. Listen, learn, and enjoy!

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