LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman: Trump is 'worse than useless as a president'

CNBC ^ | November 16, 2017 | Matt Rossoff

[2ndDivisionVet]

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is not shy when expressing his opinions of President Trump.

The entrepreneur, who now sits on Microsoft's board of directors and is a partner at venture capital firm Greylock, campaigned publicly for Hillary Clinton and in March said that Trump was even worse than he feared.

In an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the Disruptor 50 event in San Francisco on Wednesday night, Hoffman had perhaps his harshest words yet about the president, calling him "worse than useless" and saying that he'd "take someone randomly picked from a phone book" over him as president.

He singled out Trump's criticism of legitimate news sources like CNN as "basically criminal negligence" because we need to have "robust media functions" to check abuses by government.

Hoffman also discussed entrepreneurialism and the challenges of turning a start-up into a successful high-scale business.

One challenge, he said, is maintaining a consistent culture as a company goes through different stages -- the CEOs of a 50-person company might be able to interview every new employee for cultural fit, for example, while a 10,000-person company needs systems in place to communicate the company's cultural mandates to new hires.

He also suggested that Uber, while it did many things right, missed the transition from being "pirates" to "navy" -- that is, from scrappy start-up to powerful established company -- and that some of its cultural problems may have arisen because of that.....

[HypatiaTaught]

Definitely not a Vegan. What a Fat Ass!

[Reily]

It’ easy I just did it.
Do a search n “close account”, follow the instructions.

I found the whole LinkedIn experience to be more annoying then useful.

[Lent]

Linkedin was purchased by Microsoft. His reward besides the money was to sit his fat arse on the board.

[Mr. Blond]

What country did he order her from?

[Robert DeLong]

Just closed my account with them.

Here's how to do that if you would like to do the sae:

Once you are logged in simply:- Go to the top right hand corner, put the mouse over the tiny picture of you, or the white box with the grey outline of you if you don’t have a photo on LinkedIn. Has Me underneath it
Go down to privacy and settings and left click.
Re-enter your password if asked.Then click on the account tab on the left (see picture below).
Then click close your account, as indicated beside the large arrow.
Confirm that you want to leave the biggest live database and networking session used by over 2/3 of the globes business professionals and then your account is deleted

Instructions source

[2ndDivisionVet]

Where they listen to him about as much as his wife does, I imagine.

[2ndDivisionVet]

China I would guess.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I thought they wanted to stay in business.

[Robert DeLong]

See post # 25 for instructions on closing accounts.

[Fungi]

Je ne sais pas.

[Robert DeLong]

See post @# 25 for those intructions.

[Garvin]

👍

[dragnet2]

Why does your side consistently post this bull shit? We’ve seen this pap a thousands times. Whats the point? Poison the water?

[2ndDivisionVet]

My side? WTF does that mean?

[dragnet2]

After carrying the leftist water, WTF does “our side” mean?

[Falconspeed]

Thank you for the instructions. I closed my account. The linked in web site was a place for leftist speeches by liberal professors and for magnificent resumés.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Stick it up your ***.

[dragnet2]

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s just what Rachel Maddow would say.

[Robert DeLong]

When they asked me to provide the reason for leaving I copied & pasted the title of this article, and said I no longer need to associate with this website.

You're welcome BTW.