GPT-4 In My Own Work an academic career where I could think deeply and influence others with my writing. It only took a few months in graduate school to realize that, in order to become a successful academic, I would need to focus so intently on a highly specialized topic that anything I wrote would be read by an audience of—at best—a few dozen fellow academics, with little influence on the practical workings of society. So I decided that I should focus instead on business. I never wavered in my desire to think deeply about issues and influence others. As fate would have it, my business success helped create an environment in which I have been able to return to a variation on my original plan. Thanks to social media companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Medium, the internet has become the world’s “town square”—except this town square can reach billions. And, thanks to my success as an entrepre- neur and investor, I’ve earned enough credibility to build an audience for my ideas through articles, books, and podcasts. Let’s see if I can use GPT-4 to create a piece of “Reid Hoffman” writing that I think would have real-life value. Reid: Please write an essay of no less than 400 words, in the style of Reid Hoffman, using specific examples of real actions taken by specific companies and entre- preneurs in the region, explaining how the core idea of Blitzscaling—which is to prioritize speed over efficiency to win a valuable winner-take-most market—works dif- ferently in sub-Saharan Africa, and what entrepreneurs in that region need to know to Blitzscale successfully. GPT-4 (edited for length): The concept of Blitzscaling is a relatively new business strategy that is being adopted by many startups and companies around the world. This strategy is based on the idea of prioritizing speed 137