The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of strategic advantage, is you always have to be investing in the future.
Reid HoffmanWhat is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
Reid HoffmanData only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
Reid HoffmanCompanies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
Reid HoffmanPeople generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you.
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