Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Village Global Chairman Reid Hoffman says most people in his position are fascinated by technology. He's not. He's fascinated by human beings.
That distinction shaped everything. At Stanford, instead of computer science, he studied symbolic systems: psychology, linguistics, philosophy. He wanted to understand how humans think, how we communicate, how we reach better understanding together. His conviction is that we evolve through technology. Glasses. Podcasts. AI. Not tools we use, but mechanisms through which we change who we are.
#AI #foundermindset
Village Global Chairman Reid Hoffman says most people in his position are fascinated by technology. He's not. He's fascinated by human beings.
That distinction shaped everything. At Stanford, instead of computer science, he studied symbolic systems: psychology, linguistics, philosophy. He wanted to understand how humans think, how we communicate, how we reach better understanding together. His conviction is that we evolve through technology. Glasses. Podcasts. AI. Not tools we use, but mechanisms through which we change who we are.
#AI #foundermindset










