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

Reid Hoffman

How much change will you demand? In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing? Who flourishes?

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Live From the Startup Bus – Round 1: My Twili-O Face (I Choked) (Post #4)

Up and Running

I even practiced pitching to a complete stranger, while taking a leak in a truck stop bathroom in a town called Iowa, Louisiana. Yep – it turns out she won this competition last year, and is the Silicon Valley bus conductor this time around. I was ready to rock this pitch. I had it perfected.

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