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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

Alexis Ohanian

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn
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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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What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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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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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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Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.
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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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