The Future Is Not Guaranteed to Be Good

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As we move toward progress, there are always these moments where the forces of retrenchment emerge. You have to work towards it. For example, citizenship is not just an entitlement, but its responsibility. Each company is part of a social fabric providing more products and services that hopefully really add quality to people's lives. And you have to do the work to get there.

“We should expect more volatility,” Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in the first Need to Know session of the year, covering news and business topics impacting entrepreneurs right now. Reid and Bob discuss the implications of the Ukraine invasion, then dive into the pandemic-fueled troubles at Peloton, PayPal, and Meta, new climate-change urgencies — including Reid’s recent trip to Antarctica, and how Activision will be different after merging with Microsoft. Plus: pay transparency; the lessons of Theranos; and the business case for democracy. Cameos: John Doerr (author of Speed & Scale), Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust), Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project).

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