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I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are amazing at, because it's going to mean better stuff for us, too.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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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 actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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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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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The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.
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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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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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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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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.
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