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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.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
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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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So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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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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You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
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Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.
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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
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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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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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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
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First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
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I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it, and now it's Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster.
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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
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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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