What Are the Tech Billionaires Really Like? (Your Radical Questions with Reid Hoffman)
5/11/202618 min
Reid Hoffman is one of the founding fathers of the modern technology industry – an early investor and champion of the world of AI and the co-founder of the largest professional network in the world, LinkedIn. In this episode, he answers your questions on whether tech leaders understand the scale of their responsibility over the job market, how politicians will deal with the potential repercussions of tech on the working class, how AI could be used for evil, and what his contemporaries Elon Musk and Sam Altman are really like.
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Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was the BBC’s media editor and the editor of The Independent newspaper.
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Amol Rajan· Host0:50
[gentle music] Hello, welcome to "Your Radical Questions." This is where I put your magnificent questions to one of our guests. You can engage very, very directly with them through me, and I will really pursue answers on your behalf. What a chance, what an opportunity for you to connect with the amazing people we have in this studio. And, um, our guest today, our guest on Thursday's episode, is a man who has lived many lives. He was one of the founders of PayPal. There are too many companies to mention, but I think the main thing you might know is that he was a co-founder and really the big brains behind LinkedIn, which now has one point three billion users. He's an entrepreneur, an author of many, many books, including "Blitzscaling," "Super Agency," "The Start