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
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.
If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
Help the people in your network. And let them help you.
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
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.
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.