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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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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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If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.
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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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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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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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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 I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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
Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
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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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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 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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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.
Alexis Ohanian
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.
Alexis Ohanian
The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
Alexis Ohanian
