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You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?
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Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.
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Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.
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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with 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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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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I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.
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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.
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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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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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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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The first version of everything is janky.
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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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