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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Investor
Venture Capitalist
Brooklyn
New York
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.
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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.
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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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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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There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.
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The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.
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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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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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I think everyone should learn how to code.
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Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
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The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.
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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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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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It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.
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