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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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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 reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
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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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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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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 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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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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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.
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You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use 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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Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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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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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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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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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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