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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

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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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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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Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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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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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
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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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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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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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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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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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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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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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This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
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I'm sympathetic to the people who go, Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently, but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.
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I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.
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When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
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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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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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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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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
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