## About

## Courses by Reid

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Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on Blitzscaling17m
### Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on Blitzscaling

#### By: Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on Creating an Alliance with Employees1h 25m
### Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh on Creating an Alliance with Employees

#### By: Reid Hoffman


## Articles by Reid

## Activity

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Daffy is doing some notable work at the crossroads of fintech and philanthropy. They partnered with Robinhood for crypto donations to 1.7M+…
### Daffy is doing some notable work at the crossroads of fintech and philanthropy. They partnered with Robinhood for crypto donations to 1.7M+…

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I put significant effort into electing Vice President Kamala Harris. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that President-elect Trump will build upon President…
### I put significant effort into electing Vice President Kamala Harris. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that President-elect Trump will build upon President…

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## Experience & Education

## Volunteer Experience

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### Chair, Board of Directors

#### Opportunity@Work

- Present 8 years 6 months

Economic Empowerment

Opportunity@Work is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to re-wiring the U.S. labor market through innovative technology and education financing. Opportunity@Work has launched TechHire.Careers, a new kind of recruiting platform built to help employers fill entry-level tech positions with talented individuals from diverse backgrounds.


By breaking down systemic barriers facing job seekers who come from nontraditional backgrounds, Opportunity@Work will enable millions of Americans to…Opportunity@Work is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to re-wiring the U.S. labor market through innovative technology and education financing. Opportunity@Work has launched TechHire.Careers, a new kind of recruiting platform built to help employers fill entry-level tech positions with talented individuals from diverse backgrounds.


By breaking down systemic barriers facing job seekers who come from nontraditional backgrounds, Opportunity@Work will enable millions of Americans to find good jobs and generate more than $20 billion in additional annual earnings for the U.S. labor market. -
### Board Member

#### Human Technology Foundation

- Present 7 years 9 months

Economic Empowerment

The Foundation's main missions are, first and foremost, to be a coordinator of international multidisciplinary research projects. The Human Technology Foundation is also an interface between academia, society and the economy. Finally, it is also a provider of expertise for decision-makers. Indeed, the Human Technology Foundation favours a transversal approach with three areas of expertise:


- Research in practical ethics

- Support for politicians and decision-makers

- Support for large…The Foundation's main missions are, first and foremost, to be a coordinator of international multidisciplinary research projects. The Human Technology Foundation is also an interface between academia, society and the economy. Finally, it is also a provider of expertise for decision-makers. Indeed, the Human Technology Foundation favours a transversal approach with three areas of expertise:


- Research in practical ethics

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### Board of Directors

#### New America

- Present 5 years 1 month

New America is a public policy think tank dedicated to renewing America by continuing the quest to realize our nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.

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### Board of Directors

#### Endeavor

- Present 14 years 11 months

Economic Empowerment

Endeavor supports high impact entrepreneurs around the world.

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### Member, Board of Directors

#### CZ Biohub

- Present 8 years 1 month

Health

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is an independent, non-profit medical research organization. Its vision is to develop and apply technologies that will enable doctors to cure, prevent or manage all diseases during our children’s lifetime.

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### Member of the Board

#### Berggruen Institute

- Present 7 years 8 months

Science and Technology

The Berggruen Institute’s mission is to develop foundational ideas and, through them, shape political, economic and social institutions for the 21st century.

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### Board of Directors

#### Kiva.org

- Present 18 years 6 months

Economic Empowerment

Kiva provides an entrepreneur's marketplace for social micro-lending. The entrepreneurs are pre-vetted by micro-finance organizations. They are then listed on Kiva's web marketplace, and interested and motivated lenders can lend money for the creation of businesses. It is a paradigm case of teaching to fish rather than giving fish.

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### Chair, Board of Directors

#### Research Bridge Partners

- 6 years 10 months

The Research Bridge Partnership (RBP) is a nonprofit that seeks to address geographically unequal translational research opportunities on American university campuses. RBP uses proprietary data analysis tools to identify promising innovators at heartland universities, and supports the translation of their work into the real economy through partnerships with startups, corporations, investors, and philanthropy.

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### Member Board Of Directors

#### Lever for Change

- Present 5 years 11 months

Building off the success of 100&Change, MacArthur’s breakthrough $100 million competition, Lever for Change helps philanthropists source vetted, high-impact philanthropic opportunities and connects those opportunities to significant amounts of philanthropic capital. Lever for Change does this through either managing customized competitions or by matching philanthropists with the top vetted proposals from such competitions in a searchable online database of solutions. Through a rigorous, open…

Building off the success of 100&Change, MacArthur’s breakthrough $100 million competition, Lever for Change helps philanthropists source vetted, high-impact philanthropic opportunities and connects those opportunities to significant amounts of philanthropic capital. Lever for Change does this through either managing customized competitions or by matching philanthropists with the top vetted proposals from such competitions in a searchable online database of solutions. Through a rigorous, open, and transparent approach, Lever for Change aims to inspire philanthropists to dramatically increase their giving by helping them source and identify the most promising ideas that will significantly impact the issues they care about most.

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### Chair, West Coast Advisory Board

#### QuestBridge

- Present 16 years 3 months

Education

QuestBridge is a revenue-generating non-profit which now places more talented low-income youth into 28 top colleges including Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, MIT, Williams, and Yale. Approximately 1500 Quest students were accepted to our partner colleges in 2008 alone (146 at Stanford, for instance, and 11% of the entering class of Amherst).


QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision makers drawn from every economic…QuestBridge is a revenue-generating non-profit which now places more talented low-income youth into 28 top colleges including Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, MIT, Williams, and Yale. Approximately 1500 Quest students were accepted to our partner colleges in 2008 alone (146 at Stanford, for instance, and 11% of the entering class of Amherst).


QuestBridge envisions a world where America's leadership encompasses thoughtful and broad-minded decision makers drawn from every economic segment of society. QuestBridge revolutionizes the way leading colleges and universities recruit talented low-income students, and the way these students approach their once-in-a-lifetime educations and futures.

QuestBridge aims to create a singular place where exceptionally talented low-income students can navigate educational and life opportunities. QuestBridge recruits, develops, and supports motivated low-income students — beginning in high school through college to their first job — to be successful at America’s best colleges, graduate schools, and companies. -
### Visting Committee and Advisory Board

#### MIT Media Lab

- 7 years 6 months

Science and Technology

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.

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### Member, Board of Directors

#### Mozilla

- 11 years 5 months

Science and Technology

Evangelists and champions of the free and open web-platform, Firefox. Firefox allows consumers the experience they want, all software and internet companies to build extensions, and open-source developers to contribute freely and democratically. Firefox works to keep a free, open web — both through its own platform and by inspiring other browsers to create open apis and platforms with great consumer experiences.

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### Member, Board of Advisors

#### Center for Citizen Media

- 1 year 11 months

The Center for Citizen Media is a new initiative aimed at helping to enable and encourage grassroots media, especially citizen journalism, at every level. The nonprofit Center is jointly affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Law School. In the new information age of the internet, media becomes much stronger through massive grassroots participation in discovery and reporting.


## Publications

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### Masters of Scale

#### Currency

The key to scaling a successful business isn't talent, network or strategy. It's an entrepreneurial mindset — and that mindset can be cultivated.


On the podcast Masters of Scale, Reid sits down with an all-star list of visionary founders and leaders, digging into the surprising strategies that power their growth. Now, in this book, he draws on their most riveting, revealing stories — as well his own experience as a founder and investor — to distill the counterintuitive mindsets behind…The key to scaling a successful business isn't talent, network or strategy. It's an entrepreneurial mindset — and that mindset can be cultivated.


On the podcast Masters of Scale, Reid sits down with an all-star list of visionary founders and leaders, digging into the surprising strategies that power their growth. Now, in this book, he draws on their most riveting, revealing stories — as well his own experience as a founder and investor — to distill the counterintuitive mindsets behind the most extraordinary successes of our times.

The book contains never-before-told stories from leaders of the world's most iconic companies — including Apple, Nike, Netflix, Spotify, Starbucks, Google, Instagram, and Microsoft — as well as the bold, disruptive startups, from 23andMe to TaskRabbit, from the Black List to the Bevel razor, solving the problems of the twenty-first century. Through vivid storytelling and straightforward analysis, Masters of Scale distills their collective insights into a set of counterintuitive principles that anyone can use. How do you find a winning idea and turn it into a scalable venture? What can you learn from a "squirmy no"? When should you stop listening to your customers? Which fires should you put out right away, and which should you let burn?

Based on more than 100 interviews, and incorporating new material never aired on the podcast, Masters of Scale offers a unique insider's guide, filled with insights, wisdom, and strategies that will inspire you to reimagine how you do business today.Other authorsSee publication -
### Blitzscaling

#### Currency

What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?


The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion — as quickly as…What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants?


The secret is blitzscaling: a set of techniques for scaling up at a dizzying pace that blows competitors out of the water. The objective of blitzscaling is not to go from zero to one, but from one to one billion — as quickly as possible.

When growing at a breakneck pace, getting to the next level requires very different strategies from those that got you to where you are today. Whether your business has ten employees or ten thousand, Blitzscaling is the essential playbook for winning in a world where speed is the only competitive advantage that matters.Other authorsSee publication -
### The Alliance

#### Harvard Business Review Press

The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent.


The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.

The Alliance teaches managers how to recruit, manage, and retain the entrepreneurial employees your business needs to succeed in the…The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent.


The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of duty.

The Alliance teaches managers how to recruit, manage, and retain the entrepreneurial employees your business needs to succeed in the networked age.Other authorsSee publication -
### The Startup of You

#### Crown

People should lead their lives as entrepreneurs — not necessarily starting companies, but investing in themselves, adapting to the fast changing future, and creating breakout opportunities. Adaptability is the new stability for modern careers.

Other authorsSee publication

## Honors & Awards

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### Sigillum Magnum

#### University of Bologna

Sigillum Magnum is a silver-bronze medal realized in 1888. The medal is composed by some single medals of the Corporations which were forming the Bolognese Study. The University of Bologna is the oldest Western university in the world, founded in 1088.

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### Member, Academy of Arts and Sciences

#### Academy of Arts and Sciences

Founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other prominent contributors to the establishment of the new nation, the Academy has a rich intellectual history spanning more than 230 years.


Since its founding in 1780, the Academy has provided a forum for scholars, members of the learned professions, and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic. As stated in the Academy’s Charter, the…Founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other prominent contributors to the establishment of the new nation, the Academy has a rich intellectual history spanning more than 230 years.


Since its founding in 1780, the Academy has provided a forum for scholars, members of the learned professions, and government and business leaders to work together on behalf of the democratic interests of the republic. As stated in the Academy’s Charter, the “end and design of the institution is...to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”

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### Marshall Medal

#### UK Marshall Commission

Marshall Medals are awarded every ten years by the UK Marshall commission, "to people of outstanding achievement whose contribution to British-American understanding, distinguished role in public life, or creative energy, reflect the legacy of George C Marshall."

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### CBE

#### Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom

Reid Hoffman has been appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his services promoting UK business, social networking and the Marshall Scholarship scheme.

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### Global Benefactor

#### Churchill Club

For irrepressible vision and positive impact on society


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### Distinguished Citizen Award

#### Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club presents its Distinguished Citizen Award to individuals, recognizing their noteworthy contributions to local and global society.


This year’s theme is “Transformative Leadership” – honoring the individuals who have made a significant impact on our region by creating business and economic opportunities, or through their philanthropy and fundraising dedication have improved our fabric of social and cultural organizations. -
### David Packard Medal of Achievement Award

#### TechAmerica

Recipients are selected for their contributions and advances within the high-tech industry, their community, and humankind. This award is the highest award bestowed by TechAmerica.

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### Martin Luther King "Salute to Greatness"

#### Martin Luther King Jr. Center

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center's "Salute to Greatness" award which "recognizes individuals and corporations or organizations that exemplify excellence in leadership and a commitment to social responsibility in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr

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### Visionary Award

#### Silicon Valley Forum

The Silicon Valley Forum Visionary Awards honor industry leaders who have pioneered innovation and fostered the spirit of entrepreneurship, and whose unique vision continues to shape Silicon Valley. The Visionary Awards celebrate leadership in technology, education, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.


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