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Help the people in your network. And let them help you.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it, and now it's Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster.
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No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
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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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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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The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.
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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
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The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
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First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
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Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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