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I think everyone should learn how to code.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
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Brooklyn
New York
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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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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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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The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.
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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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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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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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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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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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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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