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Reid Hoffman on the Psychology of Great Founders

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🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Friends, What makes an exceptional founder? Longtime readers will know just how obsessed I am with this question. What made Steve Jobs the visionary he was? What allele explains Bill Gates? If you believe that special people are essential to human progress, deciphering them can begin to feel like an infinitely important and endlessly frustrating pursuit. In our second edition of “Letters to a Young Investor,” I asked Reid Hoffman for his thoughts. There are many reasons why I think Reid is particularly well-suited to explore this topic. As an operator at PayPal, Reid worked alongside some of our era’s most formidable entrepreneurs and technological thinkers. His colleagues at PayPal, for example, included Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Keith Rabois, Max Levchin, David

🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Illustration by Eleanor Taylor Friends, What makes an exceptional founder? Longtime readers will know just how obsessed I am with this question. What made Steve Jobs the visionary he was? What allele explains Bill Gates? If you believe that special people are essential to human progress, deciphering them can begin to feel like an infinitely important and endlessly…

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