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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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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
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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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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 am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
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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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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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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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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 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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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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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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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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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 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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