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Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are amazing at, because it's going to mean better stuff for us, too.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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