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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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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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Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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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 can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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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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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.
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