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Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
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Stanford
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Reid G. Hoffman
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