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Letters to a Young Investor: Reid Hoffman

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🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Upgrade to paid Friends, There is something special about a letter. It is at once remote and intimate. Its blank pages are a place to share the routine details of everyday life as well as big, lofty ideas. Read a collection of great letters, and you’ll quickly discover an unusual blend: a recounting of the weather, a favorite new recipe, a diatribe, a description of a cup of tea. Letters are a format in which space exists – space to diverge and come back, to scurry in one direction and trail off, to express both certainty and doubts. Especially compared to our contemporary modes of communication, the letter (or approximation of it via long-form emails) allows for real contemplation and connection. Naturally, then, I couldn’t be more excited to share the very fir

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