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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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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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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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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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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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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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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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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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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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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I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century 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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If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.
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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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