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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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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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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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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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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
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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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I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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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 think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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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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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When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.
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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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When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
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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.
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World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
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When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
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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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