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I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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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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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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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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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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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
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The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.
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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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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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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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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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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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Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
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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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