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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.
Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
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The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.
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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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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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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Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.
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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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We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.
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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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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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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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I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.
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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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The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.
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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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Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
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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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