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It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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