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It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
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Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
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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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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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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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If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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