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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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