Technical Book Review: “The Startup of You” by Reid Hoffman

Jason Ziebarth
4 min readJan 16, 2024

Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

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📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:

“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.”

“Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurially.”

“The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.”

“For many people “twenty years of experience” is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.”

“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.”

“Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.”

“For life in permanent beta, the trick is to never stop starting.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship.”

“Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio…

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Jason Ziebarth
Jason Ziebarth

Written by Jason Ziebarth

From 20+ Years Working in Tech to Career Burnout. Now I write about the #FutureofWork, The #FutureofCareer, and The #FutureofDigitalConnection

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