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Alexis Ohanian Inspirational Quotes (60)

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If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.
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I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.
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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.
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I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.
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The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
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If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.
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The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
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The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.
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Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world.
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I think everyone should learn how to code.
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The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.
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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.
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We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.
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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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The first version of everything is janky.
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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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