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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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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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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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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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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 Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?
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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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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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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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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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World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
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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 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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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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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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Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
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