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