Big Tech Made Peace with Trump. Reid Hoffman Didn’t.
December 8, 2025
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December 8, 2025
Big Tech Made Peace with Trump. Reid Hoffman Didn’t.
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Big Tech Made Peace with Trump. Reid Hoffman Didn’t.
Summary
My guest today is entrepreneur and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He’s now facing something most tech business people never imagine: being personally targeted by a sitting president’s Department of Justice. Reid and I talk through the rise of politically motivated prosecutions, the erosion of trust in institutions, and how social media and AI have accelerated our collective slide into suspicion. We get into deepfakes, vaccine skepticism, the inequality debate, and whether billionaires should exist at all. Reid also walks me through what it’s like to wait for an indictment he believes is purely retaliatory. This is a conversation about democratic guardrails, not partisan talking points—and about what happens when political power becomes personal.
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