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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.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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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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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.
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I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.
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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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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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