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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.

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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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