INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When it comes to scaling startups, few people are as accomplished or consistently successful as Reid Hoffman .While the rest of us consider
scaling a startup to market domination a daunting task, Hoffman has continued to make it look easy.In September, Hoffman will join us at TC
Silicon Valley career at PayPal, serving as EVP and a founding board member
In 2003, Hoffman founded LinkedIn from his living room
LinkedIn now has more than 500 million members across 200 countries and territories across the world, effectively becoming a necessity to
the professional marketplace.Hoffman left LinkedIn in 2007, but his contributions to the company certainly helped turn it into the behemoth
methodology behind going from startup to scale up that is outlined in his new book, Blitzscaling, co-authored with Chris Yeh:Blitzscaling is
pace that captures the market.Drawing on their experiences scaling startups into billion-dollar businesses, Hoffman and Yeh offer a
framework for blitzscaling that can be replicated in any region or industry
Readers will learn how to design business models that support lightning-fast growth, navigate necessary shifts in strategy at each level of
where he invests in seed-stage entrepreneurs and companies
He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Convoy, Edmodo and Microsoft
His angel portfolio includes companies like Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga.Hoffman has also invested in tech that affects positive
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