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Reid Hoffman, graduating from Stanford University in 1990

My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Intellectual LifeBy Reid HoffmanMay 16, 2020

Shortly after I graduated from college in 1990, America entered a recession. The unemployment rate peaked at 7.3 percent in 1991. That same year, the U.S. experienced a record number of murders.  The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Tens of thousands of people around the world were dying from a…

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