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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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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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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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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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One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
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It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
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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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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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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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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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Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
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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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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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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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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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...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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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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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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All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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