Check out Charlie Rose’s recent interview with Reid Hoffman. Reid is the founder and CEO of LinkedIn, and is one of the drivers of the social media/web 2.0 movement. His track record is impressive: senior executive at Paypal, angel investor in over 60 technology companies including Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Ning, Six Apart and Flickr.

If you don’t have time for the entire 30 minute interview, you can scan the text transcript (and the comments) on Techcrunch. 

Here’s what impacted me from the interview:

• Since the average job length is two to four years, everyone is the entrepreneur of their own small business, whether they realize it or not
• Now is a great time to be an entrepreneur, because of volume of high-quality, inexpensive tools for networking, sharing and working
• These tools allow anyone to be a creator, and the more people create, the faster we’ll get out of the recession

I’ve also read that historically, in hard economic times there’s an increase in the volume of high-quality art, music and literature produced. Since new “internet tools” of today allow almost anyone create or distribute new ideas and art, I’m looking forward to seeing what people create over the next few years.

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