Reid Hoffman | The Philosopher-Entrepreneur by Greylock Partners published on 2021-07-19T18:03:16Z Greylock general partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman talks with his Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh about how a fundamental understanding of philosophy can be a powerful tool for entrepreneurship. Hoffman, who holds a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University, outlines how studying philosophy helps people develop new frameworks for grappling with truth, humanity and decision-making, and how it has helped him succeed in his career as an entrepreneur and investor. This episode is the first of a two-part series. Genre Business Comment by Marcio Galli (11:44) Chris Yeh - "Aristotle, of course, is The Philosopher. But there are other philosophers that had been very influential on you. I know, for a fact, that you recently wrote a foreword for a book on one such philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. How did you end up writing a foreword for a book on philosophy and what are some of the things that you learned from Nietzsche. " 2021-08-30T13:59:50Z Comment by Marcio Galli (10:52) Chris Yeh - "We talked before, briefly, about how influential Aristotle was. The funny thing, about being an influencer, is that you don't always control how your influence works. Aristotle, very much took the point of view of the world as something that we are going to inquire, and we are going to learn from, and we are going to experiment, [that] we are going to do all these things. And Aristotle did it so well, that for centuries afterwards, people just say well Aristotle said this, therefore must be correct. So, they have learned exactly the wrong lesson from Aristotle. " 2021-08-19T19:32:17Z Comment by Marcio Galli Reid Hoffman - [...] having an investment thesis [..] all comes back to this very [notion of] philosophy as a practice in the world, which is very Aristotelian and part of what makes Aristotle so central to how I think about philosophy's importance to entrepreneurship. 2021-07-30T14:59:05Z Comment by Marcio Galli Reid Hoffman - "One of the things that I have I said about entrepreneurship - is that it embeds a theory of human nature." 2021-07-30T14:51:57Z Comment by Marcio Galli Chris Yeh - Who are the philosophers that had the greatest impact on your life, who were the ones that you really gone back to over and over again? 2021-07-30T14:46:21Z
