US entrepreneur and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman is widely regarded as one of the smartest people in the global technology scene and he coined the term “Blitzscaling” which looks at how technology businesses reach critical mass in a short period of time.

In 2015 Hoffman was involved in a series of lectures at Stanford University where he unpacked the term and how technology businesses were evolving. One of the key issues that Hoffman speaks on is the importance of your professional networks.

This is the first of these lectures: