Alexis Ohanian

What one realizes there

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 Ohanian

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. Alexis Ohanian

The weird thing about

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. Alexis Ohanian

I like sarcasm. I

I like sarcasm. I like snark. Alexis Ohanian

We were very, very

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. Alexis Ohanian

Hundreds of these companies

Hundreds of these companies I’ve seen since the beginning stages – including Dropbox and Airbnb – one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in. Alexis Ohanian

I think the one

I think the one advantage to a failed – recovering, but a pretty broken – economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we’ve pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, … Read more

Let’s say you’re all

Let’s say you’re all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn’t have to be your everything. Alexis Ohanian

It’s a lot easier

It’s a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians. Alexis Ohanian