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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was 1999. As our name suggested, we were a social network well before places like Friendster , MySpace, and then Facebook took that concept mainstream. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web.