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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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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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Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
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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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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
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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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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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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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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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It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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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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