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Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
Reid Hoffman
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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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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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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.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.
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I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?
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Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.
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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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The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it, and now it's Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster.
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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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Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
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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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The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
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The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
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It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
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