The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time? Reid Hoffman More Quotes by Reid Hoffman More Quotes From Reid Hoffman All human beings are entrepreneurs. Reid Hoffman human-beings entrepreneur humans The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you. Reid Hoffman crosses We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on. Reid Hoffman technology jobs years What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions. 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So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you. Reid Hoffman games play loss Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. Reid Hoffman government problem wise Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses. Reid Hoffman democracy believe kids 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. Reid Hoffman revolution blow thinking People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too? Reid Hoffman worried bully people Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes. Reid Hoffman second-amendment individual jokes I think the boarding schools are like miniature versions of "Lord of the Flies." Reid Hoffman lord school thinking I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive. Reid Hoffman wise long country Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth. Reid Hoffman portfolios democracy war One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful. Reid Hoffman empowerment successful people That's part of the reason why we also need to focus on, how do I give to society, how do I participate in society, how do I make society a better place, because, by the way, it's good for me, but it's also good for all of us in the environment in which we live and work. Reid Hoffman environment focus giving What I think Peter Thiel imagines is that Donald Trump has a policy, that Trump has an idea of what to do. haven't heard any of those ideas. All I hear is sloganeering, vitriol, personal attacks. Reid Hoffman policy imagine thinking 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. Reid Hoffman progress care technology