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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen · 2026-02-27 · 11 min · 1,850 words

HIGHLIGHTS: Reid Hoffman - co-founder of LinkedIn

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Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everyone, I'm Nikola Tangen, the CEO of the Norwegian So on Wealth Fund, and I'm here today with Reed Hoffman, who is the co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock. board member at Microsoft and one of Silicon Valley's most influential thinkers. And today we are basically going to talk about everything that's going on, AI, human potential, all the things you've been up to, Reid.

So wonderful to have you here. It's great to be here. Now, um, Reed, you've seen uh multiple tech cycles from uh Web 10 to the current AI boom. Just how does it stack up compared to what you've seen before? Well, um look, each new tech cycle, and even if you do a bit of history and you kind of go back to printing press and other kinds of things as, as early versions of this, is new and impressive and builds upon the old.

And part of the current, you know, AI, um, just, you know, massive acceleration. much bigger than much quicker, much larger, more impact than anything else is because it builds on the internet, it builds on the cloud, it builds on, you know, kind of the massive amount of data we have and the massive amount of commute we have, which then makes it possible to build these amazing learning machines. And so I think it's obviously the largest now in all large things, you know, as, you know, like in your industry, there's discussion of, you know, is it, is it a bubble? I don't think it is. If anything, like I don't think it's a bubble in the usual discussion of, you know, could it get to a collapse?

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