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Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) - Choosing the Entrepreneurial Path

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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What I Learned About Entrepreneurship

I was an undergraduate here. I graduated in 1990. I went to Oxford University to get a master's degree in philosophy. It's a requirement for entrepreneurship. Because I thought I was going to be an academic. And what I realized about a year into the program at Oxford was that I actually wasn't interested in, I was more interested in being a public intellectual than he was a scholar. So I decided I would become a business person and I actually knew from the very beginning that I wanted to do software startups. But there were a whole bunch of things I learned when I shifted from academia to entrepreneurship that were not things that I ever imagined that you needed to learn when I was in school

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