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
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.
Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time.
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.
There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.
When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.
I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.
It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.