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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.
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I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are amazing at, because it's going to mean better stuff for us, too.
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The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.
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Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.
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The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
Alexis Ohanian
Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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.
Alexis Ohanian
Do not be scared of the incumbents.
Alexis Ohanian
No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it getting that first version out there.
Alexis Ohanian
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
Alexis Ohanian
Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
Alexis Ohanian
It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
Alexis Ohanian
Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.
Alexis Ohanian
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.
Alexis Ohanian
Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.
Alexis Ohanian
