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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Writer
Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of Lord of the Flies.
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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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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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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You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
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Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
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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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The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
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I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.
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Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.
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Democracy is always frustrating.
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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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