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Reid Hoffman
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HOMEPAGE Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist. (https://reidhoffman.org)
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A hub of all my posts and essays online. I write about entrepreneurship, civics, and intellectual life.
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At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.
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Books – Reid Hoffman
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HOMEPAGE · THIN (https://reidhoffman.org) Reid Hoffman – Entrepreneur. Investor. Strategist.
Skip to content Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman Writing Books Co-Founder, LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI. Author of Superagency. Investor at Greylock. Podcasts [H2] About My current priority is investing in and building with AI to benefit humanity. I am Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Inflection, and Manas AI, and a Partner at Greylock. My LinkedIn profile My Greylock bio Wikipedia [H2] Featured The San Francisco Standard Move fast and make things: the new career mantra YouTube Reid Hoffman meets his AI twin and they change the world… Superagency.ai Make your own Personalized Book Covers… Go to Top
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SUB-PAGE (https://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/) LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs
Skip to content Writing Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman Books arrow_back Podcasts [H2] Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks. Because we value integrity and confidentiality at Greylock, we never share an entrepreneur’s pitch deck with others. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This past May was the 10th anniversary of LinkedIn, and while reflecting on my entrepreneurial journey, I realized that no one gets to see the presentation decks for successful companies. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Today, I share the Series B deck with you, too. It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process the evolution of LinkedIn as a company the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today — Reid Hoffman [H2] Context In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Facebook, by the way, was not yet on most people’s radars in the summer of 2004. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Friendster and MySpace had millions of users, a ton of engagement, and all the press attention they wanted. Press and analysts characterized LinkedIn in one of two ways: “LinkedIn is an interesting niche that might be worth paying attention to” or “LinkedIn is the Friendster for business”. Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and we had no revenue. [H2] Advice Investors see a lot of pitches. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. The goal of an entrepreneur is to be one of those deals. First, understand your audience. Research prospective investors thoroughly. What kinds of businesses are they looking at? What model/criteria/triggers do they use to judge whether a project will be successful or not? If you don’t have some sense of their points of view, your likelihood of making the pitch go well is more random. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. [H2] Context In our first slide, we answer three questions: What is LinkedIn? The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Why is it valuable? Because you can find and contact people you need. How is this different? Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust. Although we knew that the recruiting space would be our initial business opportunity, we believed then — and know now — that LinkedIn is more than just a recruiting business. Thus, our pitch framed LinkedIn as a platform for finding the people you need, which we called “professional people search 2.0″, making the parallel to Google because investors understood that Google was valuable. (On slide 5, I begin explaining the importance of pitching by analogy.) If we framed LinkedIn as only a “jobs/classifieds” website, most smart venture capitalists would not have invested because that seemed to lack the potential to be a broad platform that could sustain a large business. Ultimately, Greylock’s investment thesis was that LinkedIn would be a great recruiting business with an option for more. [H2] Advice Open with your investment thesis, what prospective investors must believe in order to want to be shareholders of your company. Your first slide should articulate the investment thesis in generally 3 to 8 bullet points. Then, spend the rest of the pitch backing up those claims and increasing investors’ confidence in your investment thesis. For example, if I were pitching LinkedIn’s Series B today with what I now know about successful pitches, the investment thesis would be: Massively valuable properties will be built off networks. There will be different networks for different domains. The professional domain will be one massively valuable network. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. It’s a network effects business, which means it has inherent defensibility with a network. Clearly articulate your investment thesis so investors can offer feedback that helps you refine it, eventually getting to a place where you both agree on it. Any disagreement will likely cause serious problems down the road. [H2] Context Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0” is. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004. And remember, LinkedIn was a consumer internet play with moderate consumer traction and without a dime of revenue. To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions. The blue boxes identify the corresponding markets for those products. Although the blue boxes are equally sized, we knew that the largest portion of our revenue would come from the recruiting space (the 2nd blue box labeled “Jobs”). What we didn’t know was which product — specifically, listings or subscriptions — would have the higher dollar volume. Over the long term, we anticipated that the answer would be subscriptions, but we didn’t know how long it would take to get there. In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking. Subscriptions became the product with the highest dollar volume faster than expected. Today in 2013, the majority of LinkedIn’s revenue comes from an enterprise version of our subscriptions product. [H2] Advice The general rule is one business model drives the business. It’s tempting to list multiple revenue streams because you’re trying to prove that you will be big. Yet when consumer internet companies do this, investors generally see a red flag. The charitable interpretation, which was true in our case, is that the company’s team doesn’t know which one model will work. The bad interpretation is that the team lacks focus and doesn’t understand that they generally need to drive to one business model to succeed. We made the mistake of listing three different revenue streams. As it happened, we did end up pursuing all three lines of business. And LinkedIn proved to be an exception to the rule of thumb: our diverse business lines have been a strong plus. General rules sometimes have important exceptions which can be tremendously valuable. That’s true in business strategy, entrepreneurship, and even pitch advice. [H2] Context With the revenue question out of the way, we were ready to explain our product. We had two questions to answer: What is the product? And why is it new? We argued that the way professional people search was done at the time (“1.0”) was inadequate. To make this argument, we listed three important professional business problems (finding service providers, finding job candidates, and reaching professionals) that were time-consuming and difficult to accomplish with existing technologies. The key problem with existing technologies was adverse selection, specifically concerning the incentives of participants and the reputation systems: In the yellow pages, people wanted to be found but the way they represented themselves had nothing to do with how good they were. In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. In directories, professionals only wanted to participate if other talented professionals did, too. So, how do you create a platform where talented professionals can participate, be found, and be contactable? Our answer: a network. A network solves this problem because all of their friends and contacts would be on it — and friends of their friends. Creating the right incentives and reputation system would lead to a directory people would be a part of. [H2] Advice Steer into your investors’ objections. There will be one to three issues that are potentially problematic for your financing — address them head on. You have the most attention from investors in the first couple slides. Most investors arrive with questions, and if you proactively show you understand their principal concerns, you earn their attention for the rest of your pitch. For consumer internet properties in 2004, because we had just gone through the dot-com winter, investors’ principal concern was whether or not you could make money. As you recall, we began our pitch by steering into the revenue question because we didn’t have tens of millions of users or a growth curve off the chart; otherwise, we would’ve started with one of those. In 2013, it’s whether you can break through the noise. Today, there are probably a thousand consumer internet startups founded every quarter — how do you become one of the 1 to 3 that matter in a 7-year timeframe? Those are the kinds of objections you need to steer into at the beginning of your pitch. [H2] Context Most technology revolutions are founded on one or two simple concepts. Our simple concept was: The network provides the platform for a new kind of people search, which can be a platform to many other businesses. In order to believe that LinkedIn was a good investment, our investors would need to believe that there was a broad trend of moving from directories to networks (1.0 to 2.0), that networks could become hugely valuable, and that a LinkedIn people search application on a network would be a valuable asset. We may have been the first folks talking about “the internet 2.0” back in the summer of 2004, though Tim O’Reilly later popularized and deepened the meaning of the phrase. [H2] Advice Show, don’t tell. Again, your pitching goals are to increase investors’ confidence in your investment thesis and lead them to a shared view of your company’s problems. To accomplish this, you should show rather than tell whenever possible. The winning moment for an entrepreneur is when an investor concludes on their own volition that an investment thesis is worthwhile, rather than having the entrepreneur tell them what to conclude. For early stage companies, it’s important to show that you’re on path, that you have prospects, and that you can get to your vision. [IMG: LinkedIn Series B Pitch Deck to Greylock: Slide 5] [H2] Context Once investors believed that professional people search was valuable, the next question was whether internet 2.0 (the move to networks) amplified that value considerably. To demonstrate this, we showed how the 2.0 transformation created value in other markets. First, we looked at goods listings. 1.0 is businesses like online classifieds for newspapers, which were unsuccessful. eBay, on the other hand, was really valuable. What’s the difference with eBay? eBay has a network. It has reputation. It has transactional histories. Adding a network to online classifieds made it valuable. (Just think of how valuable Craigslist would be if it had identity and reputation.) [H2] Advice Pitch by analogy. Every great consumer internet company grows up to be a unique organization. But in the early days, you want to use analogies to successful outcomes to describe what your company is and what its potential could be. Time is short — it helps to refer to what those investors already understand. The best pitch I know was in Hollywood for a film called Man’s Best Friend. The pitch was “Jaws with Paws”. Investors thought that if the movie Jaws was a huge success, maybe a similar premise on land with a dog could be a huge success. The movie turned out to be terrible, but the pitch was excellent. [IMG: LinkedIn Series B Pitch Deck to Greylock: Slide 6] [H2] Context Next, we looked at online payments. Although online payment transfer already existed with banks, PayPal’s model of a network of payments is what made it unique. The problem we chose for this example was fraud. It is difficult for banks to detect fraud because they don’t have access to the whole payments network; they only have access to individual nodes in that network. Another reason we used PayPal as an example was to remind investors that I was part of PayPal’s founding team — a minor example of showing, not telling. [H2] Advice Understand where analogies apply and where they do not. Pitch by analogy but don’t necessarily reason by analogy. Reasoning by analogy, when you’re developing your business strategy, is dangerous. In startup land, you’re running across a minefield, so the details matter and you have to be careful with your analogies as you conceive strategy. In fact, when I’m the investor listening to a pitch, one detail I consider is whether the entrepreneur is being too deluded by their analogies and not thinking hard enough about exception cases. [IMG: LinkedIn Series B Pitch Deck to Greylock: Slide 7] [H2] Context In our third example, we contrasted Altavista and its search algorithm versus Google and its search algorithm PageRank. PageRank is one more use of networks: search results that leverage an overall network of pages rather than just rely on the occurrences of terms. [H2] Advice When pitching by analogy, anchor your business to other valuable businesses to signal that your business will be valuable, too. Our underlying argument was that the network enables
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SUB-PAGE (https://reidhoffman.org/writing/) Writing – Reid Hoffman
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Will Empower HumanityJanuary 25, 2025Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Lifeartificial intelligence Don’t fear AI: used well, it can empower us allDecember 27, 2024Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Lifeartificial intelligence AI, Society, and Our World OrderDecember 09, 2024Intellectual Life SuperagencyOctober 09, 2024Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Lifeartificial intelligence, superagency Video: Reid Hoffman pitches LinkedIn to himselfOctober 03, 2024Entrepreneurship Trança Dourada Hegeliana da HumanidadeJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life Der hegelsche goldene Zopf der MenschheitJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life الجديلة الذهبية الهيغلية للإنسانيةJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life La tresse dorée hégélienne de l’humanitéJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life मानवता की हेगेलियन गोल्डन ब्रैडJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life La trenza dorada hegeliana de la humanidadJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life La treccia d’oro hegeliana dell’umanitàJune 06, 2024Intellectual Life 人類のヘーゲル的黄金の編み紐June 06, 2024Intellectual Life 人类的黑格尔金辫June 06, 2024Intellectual Life Humanity’s Hegelian Golden Braid speechMay 24, 2024Intellectual Life Video: Reid Hoffman meets his AI twinApril 24, 2024Entrepreneurship AI voice synthesis tech ? 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SUB-PAGE (https://reidhoffman.org/books/) Books – Reid Hoffman
Skip to content Writing Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman Books arrow_back Podcasts [H2] Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future [H6] with Greg Beato Superagency is the state of widespread empowerment that occurs when millions of people get simultaneous access to a breakthrough technology. With hands-on, self-directed AI, individuals benefit from their own new superpowers—and everyone else’s too. While, for many of us, AI seemed to spring from nowhere in late 2022, tech pioneer Reid Hoffman has played a key role in its evolution over the last decade. As an investor, entrepreneur, and influential board member, he has advocated for keeping individual users at the heart of development, ensuring AI aligns with human values and intentions while fostering innovation. Now, leaning not only on his experience in Silicon Valley but also on his training in philosophy and orientation as a humanist, Hoffman and his coauthor, Greg Beato, share this compelling vision with those of us who are just now catching on to the seismic impact AI will have on our future. Learn more [H2] Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI Written by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4, Impromptu offers readers a travelog of the future — exploring how AI, and especially Large Language Models like GPT-4, can elevate humanity across key areas like education, business, and creativity. But, it’s not just a book, it’s a conversation. In a first, Hoffman doesn’t just write about GPT-4; he interacts and writes with GPT-4, letting readers see the technology’s capabilities — its strengths and limitations alike. Using GPT-4 as his “author’s co-pilot,” Hoffman paints an intriguing, challenging, and often entertaining picture of what’s possible: where trouble may arise, but also crucially, what could possibly go right. His conversation with AI takes us on a journey to the future, where AI is not a threat, but a partner. A partner that can help us unlock our full potential as human beings. Learn more [H2] Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs The key to scaling a successful business isn’t talent, network or strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial mindset–and that mindset can be cultivated. Based on the podcast Masters of Scale, this book draws on more than 100 interviews between Reid Hoffman and the founders and CEOs of Apple, Nike, Netflix, Spotify, Google, Instagram, Microsoft, and more. 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? Filled with counterintuitive insights and wisdom, this unique insider’s guide will inspire you to reimagine how you do business today. Learn more [H2] Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies [H6] with Chris Yeh What separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from the ones who grow to become global giants? Contrary to the popular narrative, it’s not their superhuman founders or savvy venture capitalists. Rather, it’s that they have learned how to blitzscale. Blitzscaling is a specific set of practices for igniting and managing dizzying growth; an accelerated path to the stage in a startup’s life-cycle where the most value is created. It prioritizes speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty, and allows a company to go from “startup” to “scaleup” at a furious pace that captures the market. Learn more [H2] The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age [H6] with Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh The employee relationship is broken, leaving managers with an seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to treat employees like family (which they never were). But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when every employee acts like a free agent. The alliance is a two-way relationship that lets company and employee work together toward common goals, even when some of their interests differ, and represents a new way of building long-term relationships in today’s volatile economy. Learn more [H2] The Startup of You: Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career [H6] with Ben Casnocha How do you survive and thrive in this fiercely competitive economy? You need a whole new entrepreneurial mindset and skill set. Startups — and the entrepreneurs who run them — are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage. To accelerate your career in today’s competitive world, the key is to manage your career as if it were a startup business: a living, breathing, growing startup of you Learn more Go to Top
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🛡️ Trust Signals — reviews, proof links, trust-theatre flag (Trust & Proof)
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Your Diagnosis
Before revealing the machine’s verdict, predict the BS score for each signal. Higher = more BS (more fluff, less verifiable substance). Drag each slider, then submit to compare your judgment against the engine.
Information Density
0 / 30
Read the Narrative & headings: do hard facts (prices, dates, numbers) outweigh fluff power-words?
Semantic Coherence
0 / 20
Compare the homepage promise against the sub-page reality. Do they hold the same line?
Trust & Proof
0 / 20
Weigh review mentions against actual external proof links. Claims without verification = theatre.
Commodity Fingerprint
0 / 15
Check headings & narrative against the industry clichés in the setup above.
Identity & Authority
0 / 15
Inspect the schema: is there real Organization/Person identity with sameAs links, or gaps?
Your predicted BS score
0 / 100
Stuck? Reveal the heuristic lens — how the deterministic page-auditor reads each signal (no AI, pure pattern rules)
These are the structural rules a local, deterministic auditor applies — the same lens you can use to judge each signal. They describe what to look for, not this company’s result.
Information Density
Classify each sentence as substantive or hollow. Grounding markers — numbers, currencies, dates, technical units, named entities — outweigh marketing adjectives. When fluff sits right next to hard evidence, the fluff is forgiven.
Semantic Alignment
Pull the main entities out of the H1, then check whether they actually recur through the body. A page that announces one thing and then talks about another drifts. Headings with no real sentences underneath read as pseudo-substance.
Trust & Proof
Count trust words (review, testimonial, rating, verified) against real outbound proof links (Google, Trustpilot, Clutch, G2, Yelp). Lots of trust language with zero verification links is trust theatre. Unlinked logo galleries count against it.
Commodity Fingerprint
Look at how much sentence length varies. Natural writing varies its rhythm; templated or mass-produced copy is statistically uniform. Very low variation reads as commodity content — unless unique named entities break the pattern.
Identity & Authority
Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.
Want to apply this lens yourself? The free BS Indicator Chrome extension runs these heuristic checks live on any page. Bear in mind it is a single-page, deterministic tool — it relies only on pattern rules for the page in front of it and does not perform the cross-page semantic correlation this audit uses, so its readout is a starting lens, not the full verdict.
B
BS Level
Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands
38.7 Avg BS
Based on 218 businesses audited.
BS Detector
Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands BS: Reid Hoffman (reidhoffman.org)
https://reidhoffman.org
📍 Industry: Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands
13
BS / 100
A rare example of an authority site that prioritizes forensic evidence over marketing conversion. It functions as a historical archive of Silicon Valley strategy rather than a traditional influencer platform, making it nearly bullshit-proof.
Info Density
Power-words vs. Substance ratio.
1
3% BS
Semantic Coherence
Homepage promise vs. Sub-page reality.
0
0% BS
Trust & Proof
Verifiable evidence vs. Trust Theatre.
9
45% BS
Commodity Fingerprint
Detection of industry clichés/templates.
1
7% BS
Identity & Authority
Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
2
13% BS
Resolve the schema sameAs link to ‘ianbennettalas.com’ to ensure identity continuity. Implement standard H1 headers across all pages to bridge the technical credibility gap. Add direct outbound proof links to the review sources cited in the JSON-LD to neutralize the Trust Theatre flags. Update the featured section on the homepage with evidence of recent AI ‘benefit to humanity’ beyond book covers.
The site is a perfect match for the Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands category, functioning as a centralized intellectual archive for Reid Hoffman’s professional output. It successfully bridges the gap between personal branding and institutional strategy by hosting primary source materials like historical pitch decks alongside current AI research.
“The score of 13 is driven primarily by technical Trust Theatre flags (reviews without links) and a minor identity gap in the structured data. Information Density and Semantic Coherence pillars scored near zero, reflecting the extreme substance-to-signal ratio of the content.”
Verified Analysis Date: June 19, 2026
© 1EuroSEO Independent Evaluator — Non-Sponsored Result
Analysis Disclosure & Source Attribution
This training module utilizes a snapshot of public data from Reid Hoffman, captured on June 19, 2026, to demonstrate how machine logic evaluates different types of business narratives.
Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” / “Educational Exception” for the purpose of forensic semantic analysis, allowing users to compare human intuition against machine-generated evaluations.
Notice to Reid Hoffman: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results provided by 1EuroSEO are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The 1EuroSEO BS Detection Tool is a free tool, and anyone can test any company to see how their content is interpreted by AI models.
Any company can use the insights for free and improve its voice by comparing it to industry clichés or competitors. When a company has updated its content, it can always submit a new audit request, which will be reflected in a new current score.
To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://reidhoffman.org to view the most current version of its content and learn from the source what this company is about and what it offers.