Quote

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

Reid Hoffman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
Advantage
Goes
Company
Doesn
Firsts
First
Mover
Scales
Starts

More quotes by Reid Hoffman

Image
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
Image
What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.
Reid Hoffman
Image
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
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.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
Reid Hoffman
Image
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
Reid Hoffman
Image
It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
Reid Hoffman
Image
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
Reid Hoffman
Image
Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
Reid Hoffman