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When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

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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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