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At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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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 think everyone should learn how to code.
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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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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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Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.
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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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