Reid Hoffman
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.Collection: Thinking
A little-known company with a realistic framework that appeals to entrepreneurial employees is going to be more attractive than a famous company that treats its people like disposable assets.Collection: People
In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny. So, what you do is you have clear communication, which is always a good leadership technique, and you talk about how you can build something good and strong in the future, and how you can work together in order to do that.Collection: Strong
We have made a huge amount of progress over the last 50 years by enabling trade, by enabling kind of collaboration and learning. And actually, in fact, when you look at your average 30-year-old today, they're much better off than a 30-year-old 20 years ago, 30 years ago, because of progress in technology and health care and all the rest of this.Collection: Technology
I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.Collection: Technology
At Silicon Valley, I'm extremely sympathetic to the revolutionary response. I not only agree with it emotionally. I agree with it practically. And the only thing I disagree with is, I don't think Donald Trump is that. Trump is blow it up for no good reason at all. You want to actually do revolution with a target, with an idea, with building a new system.Collection: Blow
Democracy is always frustrating.Collection: Democracy
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.Collection: Achievement
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.Collection: Fundamentals
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.Collection: Issues
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.Collection: Thinking
All human beings are entrepreneurs.Collection: Entrepreneur
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?Collection: Thinking
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.Collection: Moving
When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Track
Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.Collection: Way
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there.Collection: Games
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.Collection: These Days
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.Collection: Running
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.Collection: Crosses
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.Collection: Vision
What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.Collection: Team
We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learningCollection: Valleys
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.Collection: Startup
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.Collection: Strong