Like this story? Like CNBC Make It on Facebook. "If the founding team in 1995 said, 'We are going to be the everything store that sells groceries and books and cloud services,' then they never would have gotten there," Carney tells CNBC. In her best-selling book, "Lean In," she writes, "done is better than perfect."Īs for Amazon – while the website was probably pretty well done by 1995's internet standards – Carney says the simplicity of its first offering was the right move. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has a similar motto. 19 books recommended by Reid Hoffman, and thousands of other book recommendations from the worlds top entrepreneurs, investors, thinkers. In a LinkedIn post about his interview with Zuckerberg, he writes, "I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late." In addition to co-founding LinkedIn, Hoffman is a partner at technology-focused venture capital firm Greylock Partners, which has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Pandora and Instagram. Hoffman himself knows something about starting successful ventures. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. "If you are Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect, but there are almost no Steve Jobs in the world." Reid Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author.
"He has no qualms about rushing out an imperfect product,'" Hoffman says on the podcast.
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