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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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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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Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
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