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

~Alexis Ohanian

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To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

~Alexis Ohanian

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I get a lot more out of the - the touchy feely stuff that happens on reddit. And while I love the snark, and it makes me laugh, I am happy that there is this wonderful balance that plays out on reddit. Or you can get both. I enjoy having my cake and eating it too, especially if it's not a lie, and chocolate.

~Alexis Ohanian

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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.

~Alexis Ohanian

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On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.

~Alexis Ohanian

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Unless it's really an emergency, I'm not going to bother you. And you can see people chafe at that. 'You're in the same office and instant-message each other? Why don't you just walk over?' That's the perfect example of how ingrained the status quo is. To certain people, it may seem lazy, but I would argue it's much more efficient and considerate.

~Alexis Ohanian

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I hate phone calls, so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.' If you find yourself in the middle of something, getting an unprompted annoyance is incredibly frustrating.

~Alexis Ohanian

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Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

~Alexis Ohanian

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My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.

~Alexis Ohanian

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I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

~Alexis Ohanian

Topics: Believer Crazy Like Real Stuff

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: April 24th, 1983

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