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