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

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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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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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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
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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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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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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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Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.
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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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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.
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I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
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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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So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
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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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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.
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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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