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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: How I went from board games to the board room

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Getting a Master's Degree in Philosophy?

As you continued your education, you got your masters in philosophy at oxford. How do you think that studying philosophy, studying abstract thought, helped get you to where you are to day? A simple one is that a philosophy is a study of how to think very clearly. There's almost a sense in which part of being an oncer or being an investor is being an applied philosopher or an applied anthropologist. That's a particular f course, part of the reason why i tend to look at networks and market places centrally,. And vestment thesis and these kinds of things are the concepts which actually come out of philosophy.

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