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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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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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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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It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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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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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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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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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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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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I think everyone should learn how to code.
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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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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