He is also the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-Up of You and The Alliance. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University. He hosts Masters of Scale, an original podcast series. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, and Xapo, as well as not-for-profits Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and Do Something. He was an angel investor in Facebook and Zynga, and in 2009, he became a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. In 2003, he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 1998, Reid Hoffman was a founding Board member and executive vice president of PayPal.

REID HOFFMAN is an entrepreneur and investor. You can also catch the full video episode on YouTube.Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.

Embracing ambiguity and uncertainty when you’re creating something new.

Blitzscaling for companies in emerging economies.

The need for playfulness in product design.

How public speaking and Improv can help structure pitches.

The importance of design thinking, storytelling, art & design for engineers.

His work at D E Shaw when the internet was an emergent technology.

In this episode with Swami & Vignesh, Chris talks about Akademias is offering in collaboration with Blitzscaling Venture the course Leader in Growth and Value Creation. His books help founders, venture capitalists, corporate leaders, policymakers, and everyday people better understand how the internet has changed the way we work together to build amazing organizations.Ĭhris Yeh is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling, the book that explains how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in record time. A writer, investor, and entrepreneur, Chris Yeh has had a ringside seat in the world of startups and scale-ups since 1995.

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