what is the myth of reid hoffman, and what is the reality? id: myth, reality -- who can tell the difference? the myth is kind of a manifest destiny march towards entrepreneurship and talent. a march towards technology. the reality is how do we come towards people, how to we help that? oh look, software. oh look, entrepreneurship. right? as ways of discovering that path. that is the myth and reality. emily: let's take a break. we'll be right back. ♪ emily: let's talk about how you got there. you grew up in berkeley. reid: yup. emily: what did your parents do? reid: both parents are lawyers. and that led to -- because the legal profession is the one that people most often leave. when you look at the actuarial charts of people transitioning. when people asked me when i was 12 when i wanted to be, the answer was not a lawyer. [laughter] emily: what was the answer? reid: i didn't actually know. what happened is i kind of got the independence bug a little early. i was going to a school that was on the berkeley/oakland border called a college prepara

let's get more on our linkedin chairman reid hoffman. g asked about the importance of thinking global off the bat. reid: you're naturally global. when we launched linkedin, we put 13 countries in the drop down because we had not realized how quickly we would be global. we started adding countries from the very first day, because people would say my country is not in your list. ok, let's fix that. we added those countries. a personal geography lesson. there is a whole stack of companies that are global anyway. if small tweaks are small things that will steal away your focus on a product, allow you to go global sooner, that can be very useful. whatsapp was dominant globally. if they said we are just focused on the u.s., they may not have gone to this extraordinary ecosystem they got to. the last one is you think about global matters in terms of critical mass. some companies like uber say, look, we know it is a huge amount of work to go global really fast but that is important to do. there are other companies where you say no, just domestic

reid hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of linkedin and an investor in some of the mostime, including facebook. yet, the man with one of the most impressive resumes in silicon valley wasn't always on track to be an entrepreneur. a student of philosophy, hoffman at one point pursued a career in academia. but he took his first job out of school at apple, and then later joined the now legendary paypal mafia. now a partner at greylock, hoffman sits on seven boards. he is the author of "the startup of you" and now a new book, "the alliance." our guest today on "studio 1"

we saw reid hoffman from linkedin. others, apparently used back doors.security secretary in the middle and senator dianne feinstein explains the problem. >> there is no way with reasonable cause and a warrant to be able to get information when you have good reason to believe that a terror plot may be in the plannings. >> some companies refused to permit access to servers. >> there is no back door. the government doesn't have access to our servers. they would have to cart us out in a box for that. and that just will not happen. >> but it's possible monitoring social media could be different if it's for public consumption. the key is finding out where the terrorists are. >> so easy to hide your identity online that they can state they're in the united kingdom when they're in iran. >> the meeting broke up with no indication of any cooperation reached. in san jose, abc7 news. >>> nuclear experts at stanford say they're studying a claim that detonated a hydrogen bomb. they say any test will have a destabilizing effect on the region. >>> frantic calls for help

we saw reid hoffman from linkedin. others, apparently used back doors.and security secretary in the middle and senator dianne feinstein explains the problem. >> there is no way with reasonable cause and a warrant to be able to get information when you have good reason to believe that a terror plot may be in the plannings. >> some companies refused to permit access to servers. >> there is no back door. the government doesn't have access to our servers. they would have to cart us out in a box for that. and that just will not happen. >> but it's possible monitoring social media could be different if it's for public consumption. the key is finding out where the terrorists are. >> so easy to hide your identity online that they can state they're in the united kingdom when they're in iran. >> the meeting broke up with no indication of any cooperation reached. in san jose, abc7 news. >>> nuclear experts at stanford say they're studying a claim that detonated a hydrogen bomb. they say any test will have a destabilizing effect on the region. >>> frantic calls for

paul: when you talk to reid hoffman, they talk about the growth of the business. talk about a circle cycle. they say, we need to spend money to drive subscriber growth, which then generates revenue and cash flow to fund even more investment in programming. this is a story that is really driven by subscriber growth. that is what drives the entire netflix story and one that has been working for years. it was the best-performing stock in the s&p last year. billionramp up over $5 in programming liabilities long-term, a lot of investors are saying, that really assumes a lot of continued subscriber growth and some pricing increases along the way to pay the bill. scarlet: what kind of outcome are investors pricing in? the stock adjusted 130%. stock isin, this really pricing and continued subscriber growth. not so much in the u.s. the growth is more mature and it is slowing. we are continuing to see stronger growth in international markets. they have had a tremendous success story starting with the u.k. and canada. they have now conquered most of europe and they are now g