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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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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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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 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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
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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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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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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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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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Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.
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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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The first version of everything is janky.
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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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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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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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