Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
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Description
How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Legendary Silicon Valley investor / entrepreneur Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Guests include Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg, Netflix’s Reed Hastings, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Spanx's Sara Blakely. With original music and hilariously honest stories, the show sounds like nothing you’ve ever heard. Masters of Scale is a WaitWhat original series in association with Stitcher.
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CleanFacebook's Mark Zuckerberg in Imperfect is Perfect | If you’re Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect. But there are almost no Steve Jobs’ in the world. For the rest of us, If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released it too late. Imperfect is perfect. Why? Because your assumptions about what people want are never exactly right. Most entrepreneurs create great products through a tight feedback loop with real customers using a real product. So don’t fear imperfections; they won’t make or break your company. What will make or break you is speed. And no one knows this better than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. He shares the origin story of his famous mantra, “move fast and break things” and how this ethos applied as Facebook evolved from student project to tech giant. | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBeauty of A Bad Idea — with Walker & Company's Tristan Walker | The best business ideas often seem laughable at first glance. So if you’re hearing a chorus of “No’s” it may actually be a good sign… Google, Facebook, LInkedIn, Airbnb — they all sounded crazy before they scaled spectacularly. So don’t be discouraged by rejection. Instead, learn to hear the nuance between the different kinds of “no.” That’s what Tristan Walker did. After stints at two successful startups, he launched out on his own with Walker & Company, makers of the Bevel razor — and learned to navigate the entrepreneurial minefield of investors who may or may not share your vision. | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Money Episode — with Minted's Mariam Naficy | Think you've raised enough money for your startup? Think again. You have to run through a minefield of unexpected expenses as an entrepreneur. And you never know where the big opportunity will come from. So always, always raise more money than you think you need. Mariam Naficy shares her white-knuckle experiences founding startups that survived two financial crashes — online cosmetic company Eve.com in the 90s, and founder and designer boutique Minted.com today. | 5/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAirbnb's Brian Chesky in Handcrafted | If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Handcraft the core experience. Get your hands dirty. Serve your customers one-by-one. And don't stop until you know exactly what they want. That's what Brian Chesky did. As CEO of Airbnb, Brian’s early work was more akin to a traveling salesman. He takes us back to his lean years – when he went door-to-door, meeting Airbnb hosts in person – and shares the imaginative route to crafting what he calls an "11-star experience.” | 5/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanComing Soon: Masters of Scale | Coming May 3rd, Reid Hoffman, legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, explains how famous founders take their companies from zero to a gazillion. In this trailer for Season One, a taste of this straight-from-Silicon Valley podcast. | 4/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Amazing Insights
Super excited to hear how CEOs of the largest companies in the world approach achieving scale for their companies. Heard a preview and the insights were brilliant and applicable to companies at all stages. The host's theories make you re-examine conventional wisdom about how to grow a company and the interviews feel fresh.
The Best of the Best!
Reid Hoffman is the best of the best, teaching us how to become better at starting things!
He dispels the myth of the over-night success and shows how scrappy, normal, and unremarkable entrepreneurs use simple principles to make weird ideas into multi-billion dollar companies.
1. Do things that don't scale.
That's the first principle that he illustrates with Bryan Chesky, CEO of Airbnb.
These principles seem to be taken out of the Y-Combinator (Paul Graham) playbook, but I hope Reid Hoffman throws in some of his own insight, like an interview with Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, on Compassionate Management and how codifying vision, mission, and values is essential to scaling a startup!
I can't wait to hear more!
Great first episode
I just listened to the first episode with Chesky and loved it. I'm also currently reading Upstarts so it kind of goes hand in hand. I'll definitely be back to relisten to this episode and future episodes.
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