Alexis Ohanian Quotes

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

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.

The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.

I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.

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

Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

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.

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."

Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.