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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.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.
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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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If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.
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The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
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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.
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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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.
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If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.
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