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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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Entrepreneur
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.
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Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.
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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
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When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?
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The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
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When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
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