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please welcome reid hoffman. (applause) welcome back.the show. >> excellent to be here. >> trevor: good to be here, good to be talking about artificial intelligence. you people in silicon valley are making the future. people are terrified of the future. but we talk about artificial intelligence we have to break it down into two groups, really, and that is narrow artificial intelligence which is like a chess computer or self-driving car but then there is artificial intelligence like arnold schwarzenegger, all right? we want to talk about that. what excites you most about artificial intelligence. >> i think that artificial intelligence has a pont of curing disease it has a possibility of essentially revolutionizing almost every industry. and it has a possibility of essentially making productivity in every industry. and so that, as long as we do it the right way and involve people the right way. >> trevor: right. >> i think that can be a great feature. >> give me an example of how it would revolutionize an stli. >> well, so, you already men

we have technology discussions with jeff bezos, susan wojcicki, and investor reid hoffman. >> talk aboutdescribe it as the next big thing. every time, virtual reality is better.

we have technology discussions with jeff bezos, susan wojcicki, and investor reid hoffman. >> talk aboutirtual reality. >> many describe it as the next big thing. every time, virtual reality is better. if people have not checked out virtual reality, they showed. we are getting to the point of, the science fiction -- maybe our classes for kids will be in virtual reality. maybe all discussions and conferences, may be "charlie rose" will be in virtual reality. a lot of prospects. before we see those science-fiction futures, we will see more mass-market adoption of a movie thing or technology thing. charlie: entrepreneurship for the hour, next. ♪ charlie: jeff bezos sounded amazon in 1994 out of his garage as an online bookseller. today, it is one of the world's most valuable companies, he is one of the richest in the world, second to bill gates. their ambition is to sell everything to everybody. well beyondached their retailing roots. amazon web services is the leading company in the cloud. in january, they became the first to win a global global for best tv series. founded in aerospace com

. ♪ charlie: reid hoffman is here. he is one of silicon valleys he isespected and said investors.d linkedin, the social networking site. microsoft announced plans to acquire linkedin for more than $26 billion. the deal is expected to close later this year. the venture capital firm has biggestome of tech's successes including bets on facebook, dropbox, and airbnb. let me turn to your company, linkedin. you sold it to microsoft for $26 billion? how long ago did you form this company? reid: so almost 15 years. we starteds when working on it. it has been a labor of love, like all labors. charlie: applet place was facebook at that time? reid: facebook in 2002 had not been started yet. had not been found it yet. charlie: he was not in harvard at that time or whatever? reid: he either just got to harvard or was just getting into harvard. charlie: he started linkedin before facebook was a reality? reid: back then, it was like friendserve. charlie: you decided what are my needed was a place that a lot of people of a similar sort of interest in terms of their professional lives could commun

. >> rose: reid hoffman is here. he's one of silicon valley's most respected and savviest investors. in 2002 he co-founded linkedin the social networking site for career-minded professionals. in june microsoft announced plans to acquire linkedin for more than $26 billion. the deal is expected to close later this year. hoffman's apartment greylock the venture capital firm has backed some of tech's biggest successes over the last decade including bets on facebook, drop box and airbnb. let me turn to your company linkedin. you sold it to microsoft or you planned a deal to sell it to microsoft for 26 billion i think is the figure. how long ago did you form this company. >> so almost 15 years. you know late 2002 is when we start working on it. it's been a labor of love. like all labor of love. >> rose: at what place was facebook at that time. >> facebook in 2002 hadn't been started yet. >> rose: had not been founded. >> had not been founded yet. >> rose: he was not at harvard -- >> he either just got to harvard or just ge

>> money you saw we did large piece on reid hoffman today, a billionaire.e's going to be spending billions to not just sort of push back the initiatives by the trump administration, but also work across bipartisan lines he's funding republicans as with as democrats although he is more of a democratically aligned. so i think you're going to see a lot more outspokenness in terms of putting money and power behind initiatives to overturn a lot of this stuff and to get people in office that are more in line with their points of view which would be more pro immigration, more organized social justice and more organized toward free trade and things like that >> we interviewed the head of forward.us last week on power lunch. he seemed to conclude as well that it really did come down to congress if you wanted anything permanent. anything done under executive order, as we see, can be undone by the next executive who comes in >> yeah, absolutely. come on this is such a cynical move they're using that as an excuse. that's what they're going to do and you didn't see pres

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