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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

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
Life
Navigate
Risk
Actually
Learn
Everything

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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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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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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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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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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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 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 entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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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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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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