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Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Internet Entrepreneur
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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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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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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Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
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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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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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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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Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.
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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 like sarcasm. I like snark.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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