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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

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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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One of the things is when you think, Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.
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I'm sympathetic to the people who go, Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently, but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.
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