Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism.

— Alexis Ohanian

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

— Alexis Ohanian

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

— Alexis Ohanian

I think everyone should learn how to code.

— Alexis Ohanian

The first version of everything is janky,

— Alexis Ohanian

Do not be scared of the incumbents.

— Alexis Ohanian

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

— Alexis Ohanian

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

— Alexis Ohanian

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

— Alexis Ohanian

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

— Alexis Ohanian

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

— Alexis Ohanian

Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.

— Alexis Ohanian

Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

— Alexis Ohanian

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

— Alexis Ohanian

Reddit was created for people to speak freely and authentically and also for us to protect and value privacy. We're sort of…

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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…

— Alexis Ohanian

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an…

— Alexis Ohanian

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

— Alexis Ohanian

The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided…

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Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what…

— Alexis Ohanian

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it.…

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I've been learning how to soft-scramble eggs. And once you've had an amazing soft-scrambled egg, you cannot go back. It takes a…

— Alexis Ohanian

The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going…

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You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire…

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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…

— Alexis Ohanian

My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I…

— Alexis Ohanian

On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother…

— Alexis Ohanian

It's so fantastic to see redditors thriving because Reddit was able to be a part of their journey. Over the last decade,…

— Alexis Ohanian

If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a…

— Alexis Ohanian

My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and…

— Alexis Ohanian

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most…

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I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises,…

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We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

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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

“We’d either defeat ourselves first or they would defeat themselves for us.”

— Alexis Ohanian

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

— Alexis Ohanian

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

— Alexis Ohanian

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

— Alexis Ohanian

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.

— Alexis Ohanian

It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

— Alexis Ohanian