Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: It’s Time To Quit Your Job When You Feel This! Selling LinkedIn For $26 Billion Taught Me This About Life! Trump Is Going To Punish Me!

President Trump was threatening personal and political retaliation because I tried to help Harris get rid of it. Do you think you'll be penalised? Yes. And direct on you. And direct on me. You're not planning on leaving the US are you? Um Reed Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn and one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, playing pivotal roles in the success of influential companies, including PayPal, ABMB, Facebook, and OpenAI. And now he is a leading voice in AI, helping people utilize this new technology to empower themselves in their life and careers.

You were part of what they call the PayPal mafia who went on to create Tesla, YouTube, Reddit, SpaceX, LinkedIn, and become multi-billionaires. And so I've got so many questions. Let's do it. What are the key factors of a great entrepreneur's mindset? One is you have to understand that you don't get to an optimistic future by trying to avoid failure. When we started LinkedIn, everyone said this won't work. But just because you don't have a hundred percent chance of succeeding doesn't mean That you shouldn't do. But there's also a set of skills that are rare that you can actually teach to entrepreneurs, and that makes you much more likely to be successful. The first is And then how do you know when to quit the job? What's your view on work life balance? And if you were advising anyone to build wealth in twenty twenty five,

What would you say? Here's some simple tips. So one is Reed. What is your take on AI? It gives us superpowers. Now, there will be costs to it, but like electricity, it does electrocute people, but it's essential for human society. And is there anything that the average person should be doing to capitalize on the opportunity that AI presents? 100%. This is what you do. So Quick one before we get back to this episode. Just give me thirty seconds of your time. Two things I wanted to say. The first thing is a huge thank you for listening and tuning into the show week after week. It means the world to all of us, and this really is a dream that we absolutely never had and couldn't have imagined getting to this place. But secondly, it's a dream where we feel like we're only just getting started.

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