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Reid Hoffman

Disciplines:
technology
venture capital

Summary

American entrepreneur who co-founded LinkedIn and developed the Blitzscaling framework — a theory of hyper-growth prioritizing speed over efficiency to win winner-take-all markets.

Core Contribution

LinkedIn: the world's largest professional network. Blitzscaling: the strategy of prioritizing growth speed over efficiency when pursuing winner-take-all network effects — counter-intuitively, you must accept more chaos, more waste, and more mistakes to win at scale. Masters of Scale: a podcast on entrepreneurship.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Start-up of You

Blitzscaling

Historical Influences

Peter Thiel

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley Network Effects Theory

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter Thiel Marc Andreessen

Minds Influenced

Startup Culture

Intellectual Posterity

Startup Growth Theory

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