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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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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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