Alexis Ohanian Quotes
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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.
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Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to come to reddit to find out what's new and interesting online, but we realize they usually do this when they should be working or perhaps when they start or when they end their day. And that's always been the goal.
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My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.
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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 about maintaining the integrity of the site.
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So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.
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It's so fantastic to see redditors thriving because Reddit was able to be a part of their journey. Over the last decade, we've seen countless people improve their lives because of it - from quitting addiction to getting a Hollywood screenwriting deal - and I hope there will be many more talents who'll be discovered on our platform.
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On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.
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If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.
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It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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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 create value and jobs for these United States.
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The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.
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It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.
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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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Republicans want to keep the open Internet safe from big government. Democrats want to keep it safe from big corporations. I say we agree to agree and move ahead.
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I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
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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 right decision.
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Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
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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 hit the #1 post or comment.
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I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.
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Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking up with, it's a whole lot easier.
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I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.
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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 spooning my laptop.
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Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.
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Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.