Alexis Ohanian

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

— Alexis Ohanian

If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

— Alexis Ohanian

I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.

— Alexis Ohanian

It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.

— Alexis Ohanian

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

— Alexis Ohanian

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

— Alexis Ohanian

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

— Alexis Ohanian

Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.

— Alexis Ohanian

Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

— Alexis Ohanian

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to…

— Alexis Ohanian

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help…

— Alexis Ohanian

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much…

— Alexis Ohanian

Most redditors are at least college educated. A number of them have post- or, rather, graduate degrees. A number of them are…

— Alexis Ohanian

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…

— Alexis Ohanian

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled…

— Alexis Ohanian

There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to…

— Alexis Ohanian

What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that…

— Alexis Ohanian

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This…

— Alexis Ohanian

Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the…

— Alexis Ohanian

Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want…

— Alexis Ohanian

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a…

— Alexis Ohanian

I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying,…

— Alexis Ohanian

The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public…

— Alexis Ohanian

We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A…

— Alexis Ohanian

I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.

— Alexis Ohanian

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

— Alexis Ohanian

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

— Alexis Ohanian

So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of it but,…

— Alexis Ohanian

People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many…

— Alexis Ohanian

Until we actually get legislation that protects our rights online, we will continue to fight against stupid, lobbyist-bought legislation. We want bills…

— Alexis Ohanian

Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say…

— Alexis Ohanian

Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking…

— Alexis Ohanian

No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that…

— Alexis Ohanian

The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense…

— Alexis Ohanian

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best…

— Alexis Ohanian

As long as people are using the Internet, people are going to do stupid stuff, and people are going to do bad…

— Alexis Ohanian

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying,…

— Alexis Ohanian

Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.

— Alexis Ohanian

What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We…

— Alexis Ohanian

Love making jewelry? Awesome! Find blogs that inspire you, follow people on social media who have great taste, start an Etsy store,…

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