Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
One thing I learned in '97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“more on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The key thing for a CEO to keep their head in the game is recognize that there's turbulent times, plan for, you… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“As much as companies might yearn for a stable environment and employees might yearn for lifetime employment, the world has irrevocably changed.… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a five-person start-up or a global giant, the companies that are most… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Stockpiling facts won’t get you anywhere. What will get you somewhere is being able to access the information you need, when you need it.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image