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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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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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Internet Entrepreneur
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Nothing will replace good journalism.
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I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?
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The first version of everything is janky.
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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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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.
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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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I think everyone should learn how to code.
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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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Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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We all have great ideas. No one ever says, I've got this terrible idea.
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I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.
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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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I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
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I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are amazing at, because it's going to mean better stuff for us, too.
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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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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 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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