Possible Ep 94 | AMD’s Comeback and Vision for Chipmaking w/ CEO Lisa Su

Reid Hoffman September 24, 2025
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Hi—I’m Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock, co-host of the Possible Podcast (https://www.possible.fm/), and co-founder of Inflection AI. I’m interested in technology and ideas that enable human progress. I use YouTube to share some of the conversations I’ve taken part in, along with my thoughts on AI, innovation, starting and scaling businesses, and more. My AI avatar, Reid AI, makes the occasional appearance here, too. I serve on nonprofit boards such as Endeavor, New America, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. If you like what you see, you can subscribe for more.

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Today, half of the world’s top 10 supercomputers use AMD’s chips. In this episode of Possible, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su joins Reid and Aria to talk about hardware, risk-taking, and building in this age of AI. She shares her experience taking AMD from near-bankruptcy a decade ago to one of the world’s leading chipmakers and also weighs in on geopolitics, the AI arms race, healthcare, startups, and what makes her want to hire someone.

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