In just six years, the Mountain View, Calif., company has become one of Silicon Valley's stalwarts, with 350 employees and a brand recognized throughout corporate America. Its 41 million members include people from more than 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 company.
Hoffman, 41, started LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. Reid Hoffman knows a little something about that. () - In Silicon Valley, it's all about knowing the right people. "That's particularly, of course, part of the reason why at Greylock, I tend to look at networks and marketplaces centrally in my investment thesis, and these kinds of things are the concepts which actually come out of philosophy.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. He told us, "I think what every entrepreneur in consumer internet is doing is essentially embodying a theory of human nature as individuals and as a group for how they'll react to the service, especially if it's community or network properties, how they'll interact with each other, how this will fit in their landscape of how they identify themselves and how they communicate or transact with other people. "Formulating what your investment thesis is, what the strategy is, what the risks with the approach are, what kinds of things you would be doing with it, are all greatly aided by the crispness of thinking that comes with philosophical training." It gave him deep insight into human nature
Hoffman said that "philosophy is a study of how to think very clearly," and that is useful in both investing and being an entrepreneur, which he said is like being "an all-in investor." Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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