Alexis Ohanian Quotes - Page 3

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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 of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Community, Foundation, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

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  Looks, Able, Upstart

  Source: www.fool.com

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Issues, Needs, Cost

  Source: thetartan.org

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

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  America, People, World

  Source: www.fool.com

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

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  Goal, Community, Valleys

  Source: tech.co

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  People, Politician, Easier

  Source: thetartan.org

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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.

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  Inspire, Littles, Georgia

  Source: www.fool.com

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• I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

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  Eye, Thinking, Knitting

  Source: thetartan.org

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• 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.

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  Income, Needs, Debt

  Source: thetartan.org

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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.

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  Google, Might, Stage

  Source: www.fool.com

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• We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.

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  Lucky, Firsts, Excited

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

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  Community, Shapes, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The weird thing about reddit is that, for a community its size - now I'm no longer at reddit, but the public traffic numbers that they put out are, I think with the site about eight million unique visitors a month, or every 30 days, which is a fairly big site.

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  Unique, Thinking, Eight

  Source: bigthink.com

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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.

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  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Media, Landscape, Nimble

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