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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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 people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
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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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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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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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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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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.
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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.
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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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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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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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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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