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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
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Entrepreneur
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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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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