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Reid Hoffman
Personal blog · reidhoffman.orgstartupsbusiness
Reid Hoffman's personal blog at reidhoffman.org covers startups and business. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Reid Hoffman's personal site, linked for his notes and deck on pitching LinkedIn to venture capitalists, from a 2013 talk. Commenters cite it as the source for the fundraising details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A hub of all my posts and essays online. I write about entrepreneurship, civics, and intellectual life.
Most-linked posts?
- LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-10-15
What Hacker News says?
Well, if you look at the notes on Reid's site[0], he says > 1. we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, > 2. we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and > 3. we had no revenue. It sounds like LinkedIn really did need that money. Reid was still able to raise a B round from Greylock probably because he was a known quantity from his PayPal days, and because…
Comment linking /linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
on “What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (2013)”Submitted LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs as a story · 152 points
HN discussionBetter link on Reid's website: http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
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on “What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (2013)”Submitted If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO as a story · 64 points
HN discussionHere's a link to the deck Reid talked about http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
Comment linking /linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/
on “Reid Hoffman at Startup School [video]”Submitted What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Reid Hoffman wish he knew before pitching LinkedIn as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch to Greylock (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are You Network Literate? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn's Series B pitch to Greylock as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn's Series B pitch to Greylock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reid Hoffman: Shape Your Identity or It Will Shape You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Alliance: A Visual Summary as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World’s Bank: How Crowdfunding is Disrupting Old Banking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn's Series B Greylock Pitchdeck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Not Quite. as a story · 1 points
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