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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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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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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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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
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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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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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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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