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Alexis Kerry Ohanian, Sr. (born April 24, 1983) is an Armenian-American Internet entrepreneur and investor, who is co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. Ohanian is based in San Francisco, and was a partner at Y Combinator. In 2012, Andy Greenberg of Forbes magazine dubbed him "Mayor of the Internet".

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You 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.

Bought, Computer, Country, Largely, School, Successful

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

Like, Sarcasm, Snark

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

Entrepreneurship, Gospel, Internet, Spread

It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

Internet, Resource, Resources, Turns

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.

Georgia, Inspire, Littles, Take

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

Doe, Entrepreneur, French, Ideas

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.

Community, Foundation, Start, Way

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.

Run, Running, State, Surveillance State, Technology, Valuable

I think everyone should learn how to code.

Code, Learn, Should, Think, Thinking

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

Able, Faster, Grow, Look, Looks, Upstart

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

Bigger, Cost, Issue, Issues, Loan, Needs

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

Business, Control, Lose, Okay, Succeed, Want

Not 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.

Brain, Ideas, Imbued, Problems, Skill, Skills

Raise $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.

Care, Excuse, Ideas, Raise, Taking, Thing

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

Freest, Great Things, Ideas, Internet

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

America, Century, People, World

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.

Like, Pages, Reading, Reddit, Snarky, User

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

Begrudge, Creating, I Can, Instead, Jobs, Opts

The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.

Actually, Cat, Everyone, People, Winning

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.

Based, Founders, Investing, Littles, Prototype, Team

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