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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
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Stanford
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Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.
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One of the things is when you think, Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.
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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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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
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All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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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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When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
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Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
Reid Hoffman
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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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
Reid Hoffman
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.
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