World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.' — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task . Usually it's best to have two… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment,… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're… — 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
