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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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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
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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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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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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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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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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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What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks.
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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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Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.
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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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Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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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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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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