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Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder, LinkedIn & Partner, Greylock, Linkedin

Search every verified Reid Hoffman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In recent podcast appearances and interviews, Reid Hoffman has continued to advocate for a middle-ground approach to AI development, which he describes as "steering" rather than accelerating or decelerating. He has stated that he considers existential risk from AI "way overblown" and argued that AI is part of the solution to risks such as cybersecurity and biosecurity. Hoffman has also emphasized the need for America to lead in AI, framing it as the "next industrial revolution" that will determine future prosperity, while acknowledging the transition will be difficult and calling for a "dual mandate" of economic prosperity and American AI leadership. Hoffman has commented on AI's impact on software development and jobs, saying that software is "amplified in importance" even as it becomes much cheaper to produce. He has described AI as a "cognitive exoskeleton" and discussed its potential to increase human persistence and creativity. On the topic of job displacement, he has argued that AI can help people find, learn, and perform new jobs, and he recommended that graduates not "boo AI" but instead prepare for the changes it will bring. He has also shared personal anecdotes, such as knowing three people whose lives he says were saved by ChatGPT, and discussed how his $5.5 million in revenue from his companies compares to the $16 billion in revenue of someone he met in a video interview.

Recent appearances

  • Is AI making us quit sooner?

    October 21, 2026 · 📺 Reid Hoffman

    What happens to software businesses when AI makes their products easier to recreate? Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger explore what a developer’s effort to rebuild seven Adobe apps with Claude means for software pricing, competitive moats, and intellectual property. They also unpack Andrej Karpathy’s AI capability gap: why everyday users and researchers inside frontier labs have very different views of what AI can do. Then, they examine a randomized study showing that brief AI assistance caused—not just correlated with—reduced persistence after that help was removed. Reid makes the case for AI as a…

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  • I Thought He Was Joking… Until He Told Me He Co-Founded LinkedIn

    October 19, 2026 · 📺 James Dumoulin Asks

    I thought he was joking… until he told me he CO-FOUNDED LINKEDIN. 💰😳 Imagine having a casual conversation with someone, only to discover they helped create one of the biggest professional networking platforms in the world. In this video, James Dumoulin meets someone who claims to have co-founded LinkedIn, the platform that transformed how millions of professionals connect, build careers, and discover business opportunities. What starts as an ordinary conversation turns into a fascinating look at entrepreneurship, technology, innovation, and the mindset behind building a globally recognized…

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  • Why AI Should Be Steered, Not Stopped w/ LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Mo News

    As warnings mount that artificial intelligence could take millions of jobs, and even threaten humanity itself, Reid Hoffman argues we need a middle path: keep developing the technology while putting safeguards in place. The billionaire LinkedIn co-founder, early OpenAI backer and former board member, and major Democratic donor joins Mosheh for a conversation about technology, money, and political power—and the future he’s helping finance. Hoffman explains why he thinks extinction fears are overblown, how America should compete with China, and what lawmakers should require companies to do --…

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  • Is The Solution to AI Job Loss… More AI? | Billionaire Reid Hoffman | Future Takes

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 Futurology and Berggruen Institute

    LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman lays out how AI that breaks jobs can also help people find, learn, and do the next one. But the transition will be painful. Watch the full episode, We Must Move Fast and Fix Things. Billionaire Reid Hoffman on AI and Our Broken Institutions | The Futurology Podcast:    • We Must Move Fast and Fix Things: Billiona...   Subscribe to Futurology: https://linkin.bio/futurology #AI #FutureOfWork #Jobs #ReidHoffman #Futurology

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  • Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 Newcomer

    Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, the future of jobs, and why he believes the AI boom is keeping America out of a recession. The LinkedIn co-founder joins Eric Newcomer to explain why America needs to keep building AI while being careful about how powerful new systems are released. He shares why nobody can confidently predict AI’s impact on employment, how AI-native startups could disrupt established businesses, and what it would take to help workers navigate that transition. Hoffman also recounts knowing three people whose lives he says were saved by ChatGPT as a medical second opinion. He argues fo…

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  • When AI's builders sound the alarm

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 Reid Hoffman

    Can America lead in AI while making life better for everyday Americans? Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger weigh in on Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, and Reid makes the case for America’s dual mandate: leading in AI while delivering prosperity for the many. Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger puts his personal estimate of AI-driven extinction risk above 10%. They unpack that warning alongside Sam Altman’s support for slower development and David Sacks calling Anthropic and OpenAI a cartel. Reid identifies biological threats, cyberattacks, and job disruption as the real risks, makes the cas…

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  • BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton Leads Fireside Chat With Co-Founder Of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 Forbes Breaking News

    Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Reid Hoffman, co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, during the 2026 Clinton Global Initiative meeting on Wednesday. Stay Connected Forbes Breaking News on X: https://x.com/ForbesTVNews Forbes Breaking News on TikTok:   / forbestvnews   More From Forbes: http://forbes.com

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  • What seven creators did with $1,000 a week in AI Tokens

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 Reid Hoffman

    Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil argue that if your AI experiments always work, you’re not pushing hard enough. Wrapping up the Tokens to the Future series, they revisit seven grantees’ experiments with $1,000 a week each in tokens. Their conversations span Dungeons & Dragons worldbuilding, an iOS game built in a weekend, and personal agents whose usefulness compounds over years. They explore how AI can shift more people from execution-focused “cog jobs” to creative “spark jobs,” and why expertise can sometimes make new possibilities harder to see. Throughout, they ask what to delegate and where s…

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  • Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder)

    August 02, 2026 · 📺 BlackNova Productions

    Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn, Masters of Scale) is a software entrepreneur and author. Reid joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being ...

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  • Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: It’s Time To Quit Your Job When You Feel This! Selling LinkedIn F...

    July 20, 2026 · 📺 Beyond The Mic

    Reid Hoffman is the Founder of LinkedIn, founding member of Paypal, early investor in Airbnb And Facebook.He is the co-host of the ‘Possible’ Podcast and best-selling author of books such as, ‘Masters of Scale’ and ‘Blitzscaling’.  In this conversation, Reid and Steven discuss topics such as, why passion isn’t enough for success, the truth about the PayPal Mafia’s success, why Reid stepped back from LinkedIn, and how to adapt to an AI world.  00:00 Intro 02:16 How Have You Managed to Be So Successful? 07:34 What Did You Want to Be When You Were Growing Up? 08:46 Why Was Being Born in Stanfor…

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  • Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: 99% of People Are Using AI Wrong

    July 19, 2026 · 📺 NEW ECONOMIES and Reid Hoffman

    Reid Hoffman joins NEW ECONOMIES to share why we're still underutilizing AI, why agent managers are what's coming next, ...

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  • Mark Pincus unpacks his "Proven, Better, New" framework (with Reid Hoffman) | Masters of Scale

    July 02, 2026 · 📺 Masters of Scale

    Mark Pincus is a serial tech entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Zynga. He joins Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman to reveal the insights at the center of his new book: "Life at the Speed of Play." The godfather of mobile gaming talks with Reid about building products people love, learning fast from your mistakes, and handling screen time for his own kids. Chapters: 00:00 Introducing Mark Pincus 04:00 Mark Pincus on his Proven, Better, New framework 09:27 What AI changes when there is no clear proven playbook 12:27 Why consumer AI may be bigger than most people expect 1…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“Well, as a macro, and that my answer will completely not surprise you, or probably many of our listeners, which is, look, there might be a challenge here. And if there is a challenge, it's just a question of how we shape AI. So, part of the reason why it's worth doing this is say, well, actually, in fact, we should shape AI to be increasing the capability of persistence. So, like, for example, you know, how do I lear”

“Software's definitely not over. That's hyperbole. But the key thing to track is it's now much cheaper to make software. So previously, it and all kinds of things change from that up. Even when you get to not just the how does AI do in coding trick change all knowledge work which is an interesting even if you just say software becoming cheaper what does that mean? Well, for example, part of the reason why there was a ”

“The right way to think about it is companies are bought not sold. So if you're selling, you have a problem. You want them to come in and buy you. So the question is how do you get that to be their idea that they are coming to buy you? Because part of the thing is it's like the dynamic if you show up just like you show up to a venture capitalist and you say hey I'm trying to sell you on this thing. Then the person kin”

“So, as opposed to Excel or DXL, it's steer, right? So, it's steering. So, use the the the travel metaphor. And by the way, sometimes when you're steering, you go, "Hey, we're going around this RSI curve." You recursive self-improvement. Yes. Right. Uh, and we're going around the recursive self-improvement curve. And we need to make alignment a little better. We need to be making AIs that are studying RSI AIS for alig”

“So, the not following directions doesn't lead to existential risk, right? So like hugging face and other kinds of things those were broadly the kind they it was amazing what got shown by kind of it following a workstream of thread of what it was prompt like what it was trying to accomplish doing and the fact that it could do human level good human level cyber hacking. wasn't and there's the only place where was it wa”

“I think that as societies make progress, part of your progress society is you expand your human rights, you expand your safety net. I think it's a good thing that you do as you progress as a society. Now, that being said, I was never a huge fan of either UBI or the articulation of UBI, universal basic income, because one, you do the math and you're like the math doesn't work. It just doesn't work for a very like you ”

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