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All human beings are entrepreneurs.

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