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Reid Hoffman

  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Technology sector
    What Trump means for Silicon Valley

    I expect the administration, with the advice of Elon Musk, will adopt a mercantilist AI policy

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    We must shape the AI tools that will in turn shape us

    The answer to fears about this technology is not to slow down its progress but accelerate it

    The dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is seen from Giotto’s bell tower in Florence
  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
    OutlookDave Lee
    Silicon Valley rethinks the corporate conference for the post-pandemic age

    Mental wellbeing is now near the top of executives’ agendas

    TikTok’s Shou Chew, left, and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, who hosted the Masters of Scale Summit, which aimed to be as personally enriching as it was informational
  • Wednesday, 24 February, 2021
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    Flying taxi start-up Joby to go public in deal with LinkedIn and Zynga founders

    Spac deal provides aircraft maker with $1.6bn in cash to pursue development work

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    LinkedIn and Zynga founders near deal to buy flying taxi start-up Joby

    Tech investors’ Spac acquisition values electric aircraft developer at $5.7bn

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20202 min
    Reid Hoffman: 'It's not about stopping tech, it's about shaping it'

    The founder of LinkedIn in conversation with John Thornhill, the FT's innovation editor

  • Monday, 13 April, 2020
    John Thornhill
    Hacking for humanity starts with solutions to the small problems

    You want hackers to rattle the status quo but also that their ideas are realisable

    Attendees participate in a hack-a-thon during the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Amid the raucous parties and speed networking at the annual festival that draws people from technology, film, and music to Austin, Texas, there will be some soul searching about gender discrimination, sexual harassment and how to fix the broken workplace culture. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 11 April, 2018
    John Gapper
    Mark Zuckerberg cannot control his own creation

    Facebook’s design makes it influence users in powerful and unpredictable ways

    web_Zuckerberg sorcerer’s apprentice for Wed 11th April online
  • Friday, 1 December, 2017
    ReviewSpecial Report
    Book review: The-Know-It-Alls by Noam Cohen — hostile view of free speech

    A study of the ‘powerful uber-confident men’ who shaped the Web

    American actor Richard Kiel (as a Kanamit) (right) salutes an earthling in a scene from the 'To Serve Man' episode of 'The Twilight Zone,' March 2, 1962. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
  • Friday, 20 October, 2017
    Out of Office
    LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman: ‘Board games inspired my business strategy’

    After selling the site for $26bn, the billionaire has had more time to pursue other passions

    Reid Hoffman
  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2017
    Business education
    Tim Cook of Apple to open Oxford university start-up hub

    High-profile backers for The Foundry endorse institution’s entrepreneurial credentials

    The Oxford Centre for Islamic studies FT Mag cover story. Photograph shows a generic view of Oxford taken from St Mary's Cuhrch on Oxford High Street.
  • Monday, 25 September, 2017
    FT AlphavilleSujeet Indap
    Zynga’s #WTF IPO lock-up
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2017
    The way we work 2017
    Executive choice: to build or buy the next leader?

    In an era of looser networks and job-hopping, GE’s painstaking method of selecting its new CEO is becoming the exception

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2017
    ReviewCorporate culture
    How to stop wasting time in futile meetings 

    Book review: ‘Time, Talent, Energy’, by Michael Mankins and Eric Garton 

    Badly organised or needless meetings are part of the 'organisational drag' that wastes time and hampers creativity
  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2016
    MBA blogStephen Morse
    How to build a successful start-up, according to Reid Hoffman
  • Monday, 13 June, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Microsoft pays $26bn for LinkedIn to boost professional networking reach

    Offer of $196 a share represents a 50% premium to professional network’s closing price on Friday

    Microsoft LinkedIn
  • Monday, 13 June, 2016
    Technology sector
    Microsoft to buy LinkedIn in $26.2bn deal
  • Sunday, 3 April, 2016
    Lucy Kellaway
    Ten rules for composing your LinkedIn summary

    Hillary Clinton’s summary teaches two lessons in how not to do it: no jokes and stick to the point

    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses supporters at her Super Tuesday election night rally in Miami, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • Thursday, 28 January, 2016
    Social Media
    Beware of the ‘blitzscalers’

    Scale-ups, not start-ups are changing the world, argues technology entrepreneur Azeem Azhar

    Azeem Azhar
  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2015
    FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
    A bleaker view of our automated future comes to the fore

    Winning title ‘The Rise of the Robots’ is dystopian bookend to ‘The World is Flat’, on top in 2005

    Tight writing and deep research: Martin Ford accepting the award for 'The Rise of the Robots'
  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2015
    Work & Careers
    Expertise in scaling up is the visible secret of Silicon Valley

    ‘First-scaler’ advantage beats first-mover advantage, writes LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman

    The logos of Airbnb Inc. sit on banners displayed outside a media event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Monday, July 27, 2015. Airbnb is hoping to spread its unique brand of hospitality throughout Africa. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2015
    The World blogAndrew Hill
    Why plug-and-play workers still need training
  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2015
    US & Canadian companies
    The liberating power of the ‘Plan Z’ worst-case scenario

    Murad Ahmed on the start-up successes who advocate staring into the abyss to make it less scary

    Michael Acton Smith, founder of Mind Candy
  • Tuesday, 26 May, 2015
    US & Canadian companies
    Acquiring proven entrepreneurs is a smart way to innovate

    LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on the art of importing and keeping business builders

    'Hard-won experience': LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman says entrepreneurial skills cannot be taught at workshops
  • Monday, 13 April, 2015
    FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
    Reid Hoffman and Dambisa Moyo join FT/McKinsey book prize judges

    LinkedIn co-founder and economist to help decide which business author will win £30,000

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