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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.

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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Internet Entrepreneur
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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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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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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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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.
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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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