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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
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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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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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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
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World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
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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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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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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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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
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I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.
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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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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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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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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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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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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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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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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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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
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