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:

• The current pandemic and the economic crisis 
• How one must lean on one’s ecosystem for insights and support while offering the same back into the ecosystem
• How the pandemic has caused previous market failures to move to market readiness
• The importance of entrepreneurs co-designing their go-to-market strategy
• The precise definition of blitzscaling and its application to large companies

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.