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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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I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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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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