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Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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I think everyone should learn how to code.
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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.
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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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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 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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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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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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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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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.
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The first version of everything is janky.
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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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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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