No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
-- Reid Hoffman
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About the Quote
In team endeavors, a team of one is short-handed against a team with its full complement of players in play at any time. Although the short-handed team can score against a team at full-strength, rarely if ever does the short-handed team win the game. This can be seen in sports such as hockey (all versions) and futbol.
The team at full strength has the advantage of players who can take advantage of the division of labor (offense, defense, specialty units) while the short-handed team-- in this case, the team of one-- has to do everything.
Some Information about Reid Hoffman
Reid Garrett Hoffman was born in Palo Alto, California, US on 1976-August-5.
Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is best known for ventures such as PayPal and LinkedIn. He is also one of the Greylock Partners in that firm, and he is on the board of Microsoft.
Hoffman began his business career during the 1990s at Apple. In 1997, during the Dot-Com Bubble, he founded SocialNet.com. It was after this venture that he co-founded LinkedIn.
While he worked at Apple, he was attached to the eWorld project. eWorld was a proto-social networl Apple had been working on during the 1990s. Hoffman's experience in working on Apple's eWorld project would be foundational in his later work at business-oriented social media site LinkedIn.
In 2000 Hoffman left SocialNet to be the Chief Operating Officer at PayPal. Hoffman was COO of PayPal until he co-founded LinkedIn in 2002. Hoffman remained at PayPal as Executive Vice President until eBay purchaed PayPal in 2002-October-3.
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