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Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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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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So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.
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