Reid Hoffman – SIER Distinguished Lectureship: A Candid Fireside Chat on the Entrepreneurial Journey

Silicon Valley luminary Reid Hoffman sits down with Stanford’s Tina Seelig at the inaugural Distinguished Lectureship from the Stanford Initiative for Entrepreneurs’ Resilience & Well-Being (SIER). Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses and has been called “a master class in resilience” by Startup Insider. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, and in 2009 he joined Greylock as a partner. In 2022, Hoffman co-founded Inflection AI, an AI studio that created Pi. In this candid fireside chat, Hoffman shares valuable insights on resilience, failure, and balancing self-care with the hard work of running a startup. He also shares his outlook on AI, drawing from his latest book, Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future (with Greg Beato). The Stanford Initiative for Entrepreneurs’ Resilience and Well-Being (SIER) is working to better study, understand, and teach resilience and well-being to entrepreneurs at Stanford University and around the world. SIER is a collaboration between the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP).