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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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