Adam Grant Meets Reid Hoffman | How To Academy

Fri, 29 October 2021

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Adam Grant Meets Reid Hoffman

Surprising Truths From the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs

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Join the TED superstar and the legendary founder of LinkedIn as they explore the secrets to scaling a successful business.

The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset – and that mindset can be cultivated.

Behind the scenes in Silicon Valley, Reid Hoffman (COO of PayPal, founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) is a sought-after advisor to heads of companies and heads of state.

He has sat down with other visionary founders and leaders to uncover the surprising strategies that power their growth.

Now, in conversation with Wharton School Professor, bestselling author and organisational psychologist Adam Grant, Reid will share their riveting stories and draw on his own business experience to distil the secrets behind the extraordinary success stories of our times.

How do iconic companies and bold, disruptive startups – from Apple to 23andMe – set out to solve the problems of the twenty-first century? How do you find a winning idea and turn it into a scalable venture? What can you learn from a ‘squirmy no’? When should you stop listening to your customers? Which fires should you put out right away, and which should you let burn? And can you really make money while making the world a better place?

Find out in this exclusive livestream event with two of the most iconic figures in the world of business today.

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Reid Hoffman

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Investor

Reid Hoffman is the co-founder of LinkedIn, a partner at Greylock, and widely viewed as one of the most successful investors of all time. A founding board member of PayPal, he is now a board member at Microsoft as well as other companies and nonprofits. He’s the host of WaitWhat’s award-winning podcast Masters of Scale podcast and the bestselling author of The Startup of You, The Alliance, and Blitzscaling.

Adam Grant

Organisational Psychologist and bestselling author

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years, and the New York Times bestselling author of three books that have sold over a million copies and been translated into 35 languages. He hosts the TED original podcast ‘WorkLife’, which in the spring of 2018 reached #1 on the Apple charts. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, Fortune‘s 40 under 40, and a WEF Young Global Leader.