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Career Advice From LinkedIn’s Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman, Entrepreneur

Reid Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating from Stanford to figure out what he wanted to do with his career.

Hoffman eventually founded LinkedIn, a $19 billion public company.

On graduation, he thought he would become an academic. Then he started some companies.  Several failed…  then he created LinkedIn.  It didn’t fail 😉

What lessons can we learn from Hoffman’s journey?

Expanding on ideas from his recent book “The Startup of You”, Hoffman and his co-author created a slideshow presentation called “The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful Graduates”.  The have graciously allowed me to republish it here.

What did you learn from Reid Hoffman?  What are the key capabilities for navigating successfully in the career seas of the future?

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6 responses to “Career Advice From LinkedIn’s Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman”

  1. Abbie Avatar
    Abbie

    this is an interesting post, I learned quite a bit, you should read his interviews on this website if you want to know more about reid than just his tips in a powerpoint slide
    http://interviewsummary-dot-com/2013/05/21/reid-hoffman-of-linkedin/

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    1. Conor Neill Avatar
      Conor Neill

      Great link! thanks Abbie

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  2. Contrarian's Mind Avatar
    Contrarian’s Mind

    Interesting choice …Reid, to date would appear to be remarkably successful with LinkedIn and his other investments – Big hat tip to Reid.

    Yes today LinkedIn does have a $19B market cap…I will argue however in an upcoming blog post that like Apple, LinkedIn’s best days are behind it. A market cap of $1-2B in 12-18 months is highly likely in my opinion.

    JR

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    1. Conor Neill Avatar
      Conor Neill

      Hmmm… I tend to like LinkedIn… not trying to advertise, steal, overshare… but slowly be the CV replacement and the inside-sales db of choice…

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      1. Contrarian's Mind Avatar
        Contrarian’s Mind

        It’s often lonely being a Contrarian…That is until the ship comes in,

      2. Conor Neill Avatar
        Conor Neill

        Hmmm like Nouriel Roubini… Predict for 20 years that each year was going to be a disaster… 19 times wrong, then famous in year 20…

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