“I think it’s about—especially as you get to this scale focus on it—all the practice of growing these really important companies, projects, etc.,” he said. “So I think it’s actually useful to ways that traditional business people should think about—and it isn’t just revolutionary industries.”

Using the auto industry as an example, Hoffman said technology revolutionizing all sorts of companies and that “all industries are in this process of rebuilding their scale with technology as the basis.”