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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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