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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn
New York
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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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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 stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.
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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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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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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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We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.
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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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It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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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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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.
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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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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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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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