Reid Hoffman

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

— Reid Hoffman

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

— Reid Hoffman

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

— Reid Hoffman

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

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Democracy is always frustrating.

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“When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music”

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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

— Reid Hoffman

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

— Reid Hoffman

Each year, I ask, 'Now that I have this knowledge, these resources, what can I do?'

— Reid Hoffman

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

— Reid Hoffman

Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I…

— Reid Hoffman

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

— Reid Hoffman

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

— Reid Hoffman

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

— Reid Hoffman

“In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.”

— Reid Hoffman

“These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.”

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Broadly, the meaning of life comes from how we interact with each other. The Internet can reconfigure space so that the right…

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I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I…

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Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale…

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I do think there are some irreducible inefficiencies in government. But we still need to have government; we still need to make…

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The opportunity to build an enduring product far outweighs the cost of alienating a few users along the way. And the sooner…

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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

“In a sentence, as you meet your friends and new people, shift from asking yourself the very natural question of “What’s in…

— Reid Hoffman

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their…

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“Relationship builders, on the other hand, try to help other people first. They don’t keep score. They’re aware that many good deeds…

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The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and…

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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…

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Leaders, whether in the public or the private sphere, must understand the responsibilities that come with their role. They are the most…

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Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild,…

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Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other…

— Reid Hoffman

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

The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making…

— Reid Hoffman

“While you don’t want to make career moves on 0 percent information, you also don’t want to wait till you have 100…

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“What Do the Results of a Successful Tour of Duty Look Like for the Company? A successful mission objective delivers results for…

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Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating…

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“Unlike John Lasseter’s bosses at Disney, Bezos was open to the entrepreneurial contributions of Amazon’s individual employees—even when those ideas were outside…

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People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional…

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“As much as companies might yearn for a stable environment and employees might yearn for lifetime employment, the world has irrevocably changed.…

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My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also…

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When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if,…

— Reid Hoffman