Top 39 Alexis Ohanian Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did think that 'House' was something I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was really proud of and it was sort of ... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.
Hugh Laurie
#3. 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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#4. If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
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#5. It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman
#6. It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
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#7. When sharing anything you've created with the world, you have to assume at the start that no one gives a damn about it. Well,
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#8. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.
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#13. My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.
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#14. I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
Malcolm Gets
#15. How people perceive your brand will determine how they will receive your brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#16. I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.
Anne Sweeney
#17. I reached reverently into the bag, then took a big bite of the cornetta. It was warm and melty and tasted like every perfect thing that could ever happen to you. Italian summers. First loves. Chocolate.
Jenna Evans Welch
#18. Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
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#22. 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.
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#23. I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
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#24. We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
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#26. 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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#27. I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.
Dexter Fletcher
#28. 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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#29. There was a clear lesson here - and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
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#30. I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Any resemblance to real events, actual persons, or reality in general is entirely coincidental.
Scott Michael Decker
#33. If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
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#34. If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.
Al Franken
#35. Music just ain't what it used to;
We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.
Jadakiss
#36. She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.
Ali Shaw
#37. No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.
Johnny Weissmuller
#38. The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email.
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