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.
Alexis OhanianRaise $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 OhanianThere was a clear lesson here โ and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
Alexis OhanianIf you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.
Alexis OhanianFacebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
Alexis OhanianNot everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through with them - that skill is so important. Everyone should be imbued with it. Because once you have that, once your brain has been wired for that, all these problems, obstacles, all these things start looking like things you can hack.
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