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
Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity.
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.
An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.