Lecture 13 — How to be a Great Founder
Reid Hoffman is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn.
The question he was trying to answer: How do you see yourself as a founder?
These are all skills that are super important:

If you have two or three founders, you have different skills you can compensate. Because, by the way, everyone has weaknesses.
Great founders seek the networks that will be essential to their task. And they realize it’s not just about, I am superman, I can do this anywhere. In order to be successful, you have to go to where the strongest networks are for the particular kind of thing that you are doing.
You’ve got to be both flexible and persistent. And the reason for this is entrepreneurs are frequently given the advice to have a vision, stay firm against your adversity. Realize that you have this vision that is contrarian to what people think and just stay on track. Get through the difficult times and get there.
Part of what makes a great founder is the ability to be flexible across these lines.
Normally entrepreneur founders are thought about as being the risk takers.But also you should thing about some questions: how do you take intelligent risks? How do I minimize other risks? and etc.
You should have long term vision and you should be solving a local near term problem. You should always have a long term vision in mind because if you actually completely lose your directions eventually you will find yourself somewhere in field thats not a good path out of.
So how do you know you might be a great founder? Well you should have some superpowers. It’s generally speaking useful to be a good product person. It’s useful to have good skills about leadership, bringing networks in, persuading people.