Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. I [Reid] remember when Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky told me about the offer.).

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve encountered many of the different ways boards can interact under different circumstances, whether it’s problem executives, problem investors, CEO misbehavior, financing issues, business crises and more. At this stage, you need a true founder who fervently believes they’re going to make the company successful. No, no, no.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). The founders, the CEO, the CFO, the executives, the employees, and the venture investors.

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