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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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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
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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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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it, and now it's Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster.
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What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
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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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