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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
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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I'm sympathetic to the people who go, Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently, but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.
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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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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.
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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.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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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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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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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
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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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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.
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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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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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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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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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First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
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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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