SIER Distinguished Lectureship 2025 - Reid Hoffman

In this candid fireside chat, Reid Hoffman shares valuable insights on resilience, failure, and balancing well-being with the hard work of building a successful startup.

Featuring

Reid Hoffman
Co-founder, LinkedIn and Inflection AI
Partner, Greylock

Tina Seelig (Moderator)
Executive Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Faculty Director Emeritus, STVP

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The inaugural Distinguished Lectureship featured Silicon Valley luminary Reid Hoffman in conversation with Stanford's Tina Seelig. 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 Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, and in 2009 he joined Greylock as a partner. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI, an AI studio that created Pi.

In this candid fireside chat, Hoffman shares valuable insights on resilience, failure, and balancing well-being with the hard work of building a successful 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).