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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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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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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.
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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.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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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 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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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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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The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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The first version of everything is janky.
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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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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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