Excellent Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/53a9e04e69beddaf705eb9d1-480-/reid-hoffman-new.jpg" border="0" alt="Reid Hoffman new" width="480" style="float: right;" />It took 15 years after finishing college for Reid Hoffman to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up. </span>
"When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual," he once said. "That is not about quoting Kant. It's about holding up a lens to society and asking 'who are we?' and 'who should we be, as individuals and a society?' But I realized academics write books that 50 or 60 people read, and I wanted more impact."
He sought out that impact by founding companies - including SocialNet, arguably the first social network - and joining PayPal early on. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In December 2002, he cofounded LinkedIn, </span>now a $20 billion-plus company<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The rest is Silicon Valley history. </span>
But how did he get there? <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And what lessons can today's young professionals learn from his incredible success? </span>
To answer those questions Hoffman and Ben Casnocha coauthored a book called "The Start-Up of You."
Then, expanding on ideas from that book, they created a slideshow presentation for college grads called "The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful Graduates," which they've allowed us to republish here.
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<h3>Want to know more?</h3>
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Click here to go to Amazon and buy Hoffman's book, "The Startup Of You."
<b>See Also:</b>
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