Reid Hoffman Quotes

Data Only Exists Within The Framework Of A Vision You're Building To, A Hypothesis Of Where You're Moving To.

I Get Energy From One-on-one Conversations Most Often, And I Lose Energy From Group Conversations Most Often.

The Question Is: How You Cross Uneven Ground, How You Assemble Networks Around You.

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.

When I'm Raising Money, This Fundraising, I'm Thinking About The Next Fundraising. I'm Thinking How I'm Set Up For It.

Part Of What Being A Great Founder Is, Is Being Both Able To Hold The Belief, To Think About Where It Is You Want To Be Doing And Want To Be Going, But Also Be Smart Enough That You Are Essentially Listening To Criticism, Negative Feedback, Competitive Entries.

A Product Needs To Be Sufficiently Innovative To Distinguish Itself From The Pack, But Not So Forward Thinking As To Alienate The User.

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.

It's Very Conventional To Say That You're A Contrarian These Days.

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.

The Challenge When You Think About Product Distribution Is: How Are You Competing For Potential Customers Or Potential Members Time?

World-changing Startups Need To Be Premised On Accurate Contrarian Theories.