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Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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