Latest Alexis Ohanian Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Inspire, Littles, Georgia

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Internet, Entrepreneurship, Spread

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Believe, Hypocrite, Investing

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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 a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Team, Investing, Littles

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Innovation, Want, Upstart

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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 crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Google, Might, Stage

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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?

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Balls, Looks

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• Do not be scared of the incumbents.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Scared, Incumbents

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Reality, Stuff, Made

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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

  Looks, Able, Upstart

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Giants, Phrases, Derivatives

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Care, Excuse

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  America, People, World

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Terrible, Great Idea

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Differences, Making A Difference

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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 who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, People, Trying

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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 marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Marketing, The End Of The Day, Use

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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 or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Dollars, Use, Kind

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• The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Cat, Winning, People

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Want, Firsts

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Mean, Thinking, People

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Waiting Around, People, Succeed

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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 that we need to just live lives, but actually get to do the thing that you're really passionate about.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Live Life, Needs, Passionate

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• The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it's simply a few clicks away.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Communication, Want, Internet

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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."

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, World, Bigs

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