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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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The first version of everything is janky.
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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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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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Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
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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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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.
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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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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
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I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?
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