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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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Alexis Ohanian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: April 24
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
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Venture Capitalist
Brooklyn
New York
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Alexis Kerry Ohanian
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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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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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I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.
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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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If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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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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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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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
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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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The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
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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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Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
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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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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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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.
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It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
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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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Do not be scared of the incumbents.
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