Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman
Reid Garrett Hoffmanis an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. Hoffman, with a net worth of US$4.7 billion, is ranked as #341 on the list of the world's richest people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 August 1967
CityStanford, CA
CountryUnited States of America
One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.
It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.
All human beings are entrepreneurs.
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
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.
It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
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.