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A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Reid Hoffman

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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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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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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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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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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 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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If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
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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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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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