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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.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
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Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.
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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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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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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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If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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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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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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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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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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World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.
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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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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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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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