You are who you know

A man is known by the company he keeps. That is what we used to be told when growing up. As interconnectivity increases with advancement in technology, there appears to be a slight twist in this. In one of his recent HBR blogs, Eric Hellweg wrote about Reid Hoffman’s networking capability. Hoffman, the co-founder and executive chair of LinkedIn and investor in Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon had apparently said, ‘we are who we know and what they know of us.’ He had also stated that the people who we know could shape our growth. Golden words from a high profile executive.

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