Alexis Ohanian Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Play, Skills, Roles

  Source: thetartan.org

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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 makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, People, Empowering

  Source: thetartan.org

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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 country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Country, School, Successful

  Source: thetartan.org

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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.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Ideas, Want, Entrepreneurship

  Source: thetartan.org

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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 people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Names, Knowing, People

  Source: thetartan.org

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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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

  Source: www.fool.com

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Rope, Neutrality

  Source: thetartan.org

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• Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.

  Alexis Ohanian

  United States, Would Be, Cost

  Source: thetartan.org

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Jobs, Creating, I Can

  Source: thetartan.org

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• Nothing will replace good journalism.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Journalism, Good Journalism

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• Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Mean, Cat, Media

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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 Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• I like sarcasm. I like snark.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Sarcasm

  Source: bigthink.com

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