Alexis Ohanian

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

— Alexis Ohanian

The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something,…

— Alexis Ohanian

The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your…

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I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of…

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If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of…

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If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page…

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The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than…

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It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to…

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Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and…

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Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest…

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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…

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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…

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I get a lot more out of the - the touchy feely stuff that happens on reddit. And while I love the…

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The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have…

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If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many…

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I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether it's - I absolutely love…

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Reddit offers the opportunity for us as humans to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego…

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I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders…

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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…

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Reddit is a network where someone with a million karma points has an equal shot as someone with 10 karma points to…

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If you imagine Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you can get all those requirements checked off and have all those amazing things…

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The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than…

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Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation…

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Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the…

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Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the…

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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…

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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…

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You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website…

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The reason why I think Reddit is still around and some of our competitors are not is because we were really adamant…

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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…

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The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us…

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I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up…

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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time…

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