Ohanian Quotes

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

Us. All regrets, left them in the sea, smiling at life as if it was a beautiful dream, because if one thing is certain, clearing the strange foreigh steam. Like the diamond ring that fits in your finger, we are stronger as a steel linker

With large industries throwing out the factory model as counterproductive, it is long past time for schools to do the same. I wonder how many adults would do well at dealing with different job requirements and a different boss every 47 minutes.

Find People Who Give a Damn; Hire Them; Repeat

When sharing anything you’ve created with the world, you have to assume at the start that no one gives a damn about it. Well,

We’d either defeat ourselves first or they would defeat themselves for us.

Growing up, I had the words LIVES REMAINING: 0 written on the wall of my room. If life were a video game, that’s how it’d indicate this is the only chance left.

There’s no secret to “going viral,” despite what plenty of self-appointed “social media gurus” may tell you (hint: if they call themselves that, run in the opposite direction). What

The ruthless, fickle, and particular users of the World Wide Web have created the most competitive marketplace of ideas the world has ever seen; you either make something people want or people move on.

You might be thinking, “But what if someone steals my idea?” Trust me: most of us don’t have the spare time to start a company with your great idea, and even if we did, it’s going to be up to you to outexecute your competitors. You’re

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]

The most pivotal product decision we made seemed much less important at the time but was our first big fight. I really wanted “tags” as a way to categorize content, and Steve insisted we let users launch their own reddits within our network (we’d call them subreddits). Just like WordPress was a blogging platform for online publishing, reddit would be a platform for online communities. It didn’t seem important at the time, but Steve was absolutely right and it’s a damn good thing he won because that decision would ultimately drive reddit’s success where all of our then competitors failed. We combined this simple point system with the ability for anyone to create a forum for an online community to share and discuss links—from NFL fans (/r/NFL) to corgi lovers (/r/corgi).

YOU ARE A ROUNDING ERROR. Those five words still motivate me to this day. And

The near ubiquity of the Internet (in the developed world, for now) has brought with it the promise of a global stage on which ideas can come to fruition. For

Don’t be afraid to show your users that you give a damn. It should shine in everything you do, from the design of your website to the way you respond to feedback e-mails.

A dancer is a dream

In 2004, two economists at UCLA, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian, conducted a major study that concluded that the New Deal had in fact prolonged the recession by seven years.

Some of the most noted angel investors are Alexis Ohanian (founder of Reddit), Marc Benioff (founder of Salesforce) and Max Levchin (founder of Paypal, Slide and Affirm) who on occasion invest in early stage and growth rounds as well. If the core product of the business begins to gain market share, and it seems the company has a lasting opportunity to scale and become an emerging leader, investors like First Round Capital and 500 Startups step in at the seed or Series A round. Growth equity firms like Stripes Group, General Atlantic and Insight Venture Partners typically come in at the Series C or D stage when the business becomes the number one or two player in the industry and is ripe for an IPO or strategic acquisition.

The techno-utopians like Alexis Ohanian told us that the Internet would “kill all the gatekeepers.” But what’s really happened is that a new set of gatekeepers—Google and Facebook—has replaced the old.

The advantage of leading is that you’re not following anyone,

From the moment he had told Ohanian back in the auditorium that they should go up and talk to Graham, he meant—and Ohanian understood—we go up and you talk to Graham.

La Gran Depresión se prolongó durante casi quince años. Analizando la actuación del presidente Roosevelt durante cuatro años, Harold L. Cole y Lee E. Ohanian concluyeron en un estudio de 2004[234] que las leyes basadas en las políticas del New Deal frustraron la recuperación económica durante siete largos años, debido a las medidas contra la competencia promovidas y promulgadas por Roosevelt el 16 de junio de 1933. El presidente Roosevelt creía que la competencia excesiva era la responsable de la depresión por haber hecho disminuir los precios y los salarios y, por extensión, el empleo y la demanda de bienes y servicios, de modo que presentó un plan de recuperación inimaginable hoy en día, que permitía a las empresas de todos los sectores de la industria conspirar sin la amenaza de las medidas antimonopolio, y a los trabajadores exigir salarios alrededor de un 25 por ciento más elevados de lo que deberían haber sido, dadas las circunstancias del mercado. La economía estaba lista para una hermosa recuperación, pero esa recuperación se estancó por causa de esas políticas equivocadas.[235] ¿No te suena familiar? El proteccionismo que hoy proponen los populistas desde Le Pen a Podemos.