LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: How I Work

[Music] what's the first thing you do in the morning the first thing I do in the morning as I've gone to bed with an idea that I'm trying to probably when I'm trying to solve and I get up and I write down what the idea is on that problem from the previous night aside from LinkedIn what app could you not live without and why Microsoft OneNote because it's how I encompass all of the notes from all of my projects the PayPal days the LinkedIn days are today when did you get the fewest hours of sleep PayPal days what's the best professional advice you've ever received and you gave it for my father which is the challenge about making decisions is a it reduces opportunity in the short-term but it's the only way you get opportunity to the long-term you keep a lot of nutritional supplements by your desk which is the best NY omega-3 because fish oil is part of the essence of life which your favorite board game and why Settlers of Catan it's the most entrepreneurial of board games the best way to run a meeting is have clear objectives work towards objectives and have a note taker the hardest business challenge you ever confronted was convincing yvaine not to shut off PayPal the best book you've ever read Vidkun Stein's philosophical investigations because it made me understand language in a way that I hadn't understood it before the greatest tech investor of all time is Jerry Yang for Alibaba your favorite personal possession a friend and an artist friend of mine named Neri Oxman created these globes as awards for a prize that I helped create called the disobedience prize and she gave me one of them what is your secret life American bourbon you Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are all members of the so called PayPal mafia which of you would win at Settlers of Catan me I'm Reid Hoffman co founder of LinkedIn partner Kalon [Music]

Channel: Wall Street Journal

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Keywords: Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn, Management, Interviews, Corporate, Industrial News

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Length: 2min 15sec (135 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 26 2018