Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder

Nicholas Carlson|May 12, 2013,  9:07 AM

Reid  Hoffman says it took him 15 years after graduating  from Stanford in 1990 to figure out what he was really doing with his life.

Figure it out, he  did!

Hoffman is now the  billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn,  a $19 billion public company.

During those 15 years, Hoffman first thought he wanted to become an academic.  Then he abandoned that idea to start some companies. Mostly, they flopped.

How'd he figure his path out? What lessons can today's graduates learn from  Hoffman's journey?

To answer those questions Hoffman and Ben Casnocha first co-authored a  book called "The Start-up of You."

Then, expanding on ideas from that book, they created a slideshow  presentation for college grads called "The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful  Graduates" and allowed us to republish it here.


Work Cited:  http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-career-advice-for-college-grads-from-linkedins-billionaire-founder-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2VPmJu6ct