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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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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
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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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Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
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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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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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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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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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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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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
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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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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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People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
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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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Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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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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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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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 phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
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