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Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn; partner at Greylock Partners

United States · b. 1967

Technology

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American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He was an executive at PayPal, co-founded LinkedIn, and is a partner at Greylock Partners and host of the Masters of Scale podcast.

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight read 81 other answers →
The challenge of a big, over-arching vision is that it's hard to know where to start. And your biggest opportunity will change from year to year. Technology changes. Competition changes. You change. My advice: Just start. Find a single unmet need that nudges the world closer to where you believe it's going. And if you hit a dead end, pivot.
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