Lecture 13 - How to be a Great Founder (Reid Hoffman)

[@EnverYarco]

I just love how at the start of the video he says "Thank you Sam" and then talks about the greatest founders of our time, little did he know "Sam Altman" the man he just thanked would be added to that list very soon.

[@amanjha__]

He knew very well, Reid’s a good friend and big investor in Sam/OAI

[@paulselivanov8625]

Thanks for sharing! I love Reid Hoffman's examples of the founder's mindset. The phrase "You have to be both" regarding seemingly opposite things is exactly what I've noticed while building products.

[@SokhaloyBangla]

13:35 When should I do the work versus delegate? 14:15 Should I be flexible or persistent? 16:00 Should I be confident or cautious? 16:43 Should I focus internally or externally? 17:30 Should I work by vision or data? 19:20 Should I take risks or minimise risks? 22:50 Should I focus on the short term or long term? 24:45 How do i know if i maybe a great founder? 34:50 How to be a great co-founder?

[@naomivolosen9489]

This guy had a hard topic...and I thought he did really good. That "almost no insight jargon" that everyone is complaining about, is actually valuable when you are in the midst of creating a start-up..

[@Urmilpurani20]

So what u created i would love to chat with yoi

[@zealousinfluence]

Fantastic talk! Reid's content is always on point.

[@greatappguy6371]

Dear editor. Please stop leaving the picture up for 5 minutes as the speak speaks. After 7 minutes...we got it.

[@drownedwhale]

Bro 😭🤣

[@anisk77]

Good job Reid, entrepreneurs with investment experience like you and Peter Thiel can give much useful advice than most successful founders

[@HabiburRahman-xl4wr]

This guy is the founder of LinkedIn!!

[@graghubabu2007]

Amazing lecture.

[@SerpkoBakotiinii]

The main idea of the video: the projects are different, the conditions are different, the people are different; Therefore, there is no exact decision on what to do and whose behavior model to copy. There is no template how to be a great founder!

[@juliuskitali8788]

You teach huge subjects

[@MrMisoginist]

How did you manage to get Benjamin Franklin on the team(25:41 lower right corner)? I hear he's hard to get, but he'll work for $14 a week.

[@VishalRaoOnYouTube]

He co-founded that corporation known as the United States.

[@lumenwrites]

Great lecture!! I have a question: Can somebody list the names of founders from the slide at [26:14]? #ycombinator #startups

[@ErinMcWalter]

here is what I know... 1 Oprah winfrey harpo 2 3 Jack Ma alibaba 4 Ev Williams twitter 5 6 7 8 Paul Graham y combinator 9 Adora Cheung pathjoy 10 11 12 13 14 15 benjamin franklin america

[@yazins9955]

Erin McWalter Let's play fill in the blanks.. 2 = Whatsapp founder, Jan Koum 7 = Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook, Asana) 10 = Elon Musk, Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX 12 = Brian Chesky, Airbnb 14 = Patrick Collison, Stripe

[@RyanvanderHarst]

5 Caterina Fake - Flickr, Hunch 6 Hosain Rahman - Jawbone 13 Tristan Walker - Foursquare, Walker & Co

[@user-bd9qk2nu2q]

+Yazin S 10 = Kevin Hale; Wufoo

[@LRG53]

Glad he brought up the topic of balance.

[@priyankshah8]

Thank you for this.

[@leonelcastillo.o]

Awesome lecture!

[@DrewCreativeIRL]

25:47 one of those "Founders" is in jail now, don't be like that founder. lol

[@flippingWebsites]

Thanks! Great presentation.

[@zayyanusmani5360]

18:36 he knew about BITCOIN in 2015 😱🤯

[@tobychoules1713]

this was amazing . thankyou

[@hillstudios1]

Thank you stanford

[@mikekazumi1867]

43:47 poor guys had no idea about dogecoin 😂😂😂

[@Najrani]

Sometimes huge successful ppl can't explain their self clearly ... i get almost zero info from this guy

[@novapowell6976]

Yep, Reid is not that famous for clarity of his talks. I met him in person after the talk, I was surprised how arrogant he actually was. He seemed nice and kind person before I met him in person.

[@11maxed11]

really? I never expected that

[@theblizzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

I am surprised that you are surprised by the fact that some1 who speaks 90% of the time how he is "contrarian" and all other "intelligent people" around him were wrong, but he was right, to be arrogant. You should've been surprised if he wasn't. Try to see what people are saying, not how they are saying it.

[@jukka6946]

me either..

[@benediktwt]

11maxed11 lol worst advice I’ve ever heard “try to see what people are saying, not how they say it”. Dude anybody can say anything. In certain situations you should watch what people are actually saying but most of the time you should listen to how they say it because that’s where the truth lays

[@sheikhmuhammedtadeeb5677]

Just awesome

[@flippingWebsites]

thanks for this!

[@noviceprepper53]

wow. amazing. thank you sir

[@StanGanweizhong]

Inspiring!

[@joandrodriguez]

Shilling Bitcoin in 2014… Should have listened to the guy!

[@user-bd9qk2nu2q]

Who is the female founder on lower left?

[@VishalRaoOnYouTube]

Leah Busque, Founder of TaskRabbit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Busque

[@AdrianEspinozaO]

// How to be a Great Founder :)

[@wdai03]

All Reid managed to do was build the network though, it still isn't profitable

[@amanswain9246]

41:07

[@IrshadAhmed-gx7ki]

Nice.

[@emka2347]

"hehe - right?"

[@elkyelkyelky]

08:00

[@VANCOUVERHOUSEFINDER]

It sucks investors are always looking for technical founders and no husband and wife teams.

[@grantdavies7561]

Key takeaway, don’t get “hosed”.

[@alanjames670]

Wait hold on! Did that guy just speak Chinese and he answered?

[@qaisurrehman]

He IS MIXED AND UNBALNCED CONTRANIAN...

[@CalvinMaighan]

Did he just spend an entire talk explaining that you have to understand nuance?

[@LukasMosser]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/moKai6mFaqmjf9km42s Say wuuuuuut? Does he speak chinese?

[@m.adrianhorning3060]

Anybody else annoyed how many times he uses "contrarian"?

[@row0111]

this must be old?

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