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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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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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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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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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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
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The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.
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I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
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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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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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