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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

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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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No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
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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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Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
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I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
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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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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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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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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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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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It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
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All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
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...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
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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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The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
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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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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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