Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
In democracies, we aren’t always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we must respect their authority, as long as they’re exercising that authority within the bounds of whatever regulatory frameworks are in place to guide them. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
The American people deserve to know what’s on Trump’s tax returns. And Trump must show that he truly embraces accountability and transparency and understands what it means to work on behalf of the public interest. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
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. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
I think ‘Settlers of Catan’ is such a well-designed board game – it’s the board game of entrepreneurship – that I made a knockoff called ‘Startups of Silicon Valley.’ It’s literally – it’s the same rules but just a different skin set to it. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
Hard work isn’t enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business is less reliant on brute force. It’s actually one part determination, one part ingenuity, and one part laziness. Reid Hoffman Read Quote
