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But it was Geoff's introduction to Vinod Khosla, who ultimately funded the company along with Geoff, that really made the difference. Vinod interrupted the demo and said, "Can your technology scale? Can it search a big database?" And we said, "That's an interesting question. Nobody's asked us before." We liked the fact that he d

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

For me, LinkedIn was always about using networks to share and discover information in new ways, by using identity to increase trust.

LinkedIn’s chairman Reid Hoffman, who also founded PayPal and has worked on startups for over 20 years, is one of the best-connected and most-liked people around Silicon Valley.[952] When Hoffman joined Microsoft’s board, he said he would help Microsoft build stronger connections around Silicon Valley[953] — a key asset for Microsoft, which for man

Mark Zuckerberg told an assembled group of tech journalists and advertisers that “nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.”

The company’s mission and founders attracted me, but most of all, it offered the chance to build again, and to scale the type of product that I thought could positively impact millions of businesses—and, in doing so, potentially create millions of jobs. This has been a motivation of mine since I first worked in politics, where I saw how economic op

Social forces.

Peter Thiel doesn’t need much of an intro. He has been at both sides of the fundraising table, sometimes concurrently. He first invested in a precursor to what would become PayPal and soon after joined it in the early days as a co-founder and CEO. Later he founded and invested in Palantir, which specializes in big-data analytics. In August 2004, Th