Ohanian Alexis Quotes & Sayings

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

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't. — Alexis Ohanian

My name is Stuart, and I remember everything. — Julian Barnes

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less. — Alexis Ohanian

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

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. — Alexis Ohanian

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. — Alexis Ohanian

I like sarcasm. I like snark. — Alexis Ohanian

The first version of everything is janky, — Alexis Ohanian

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions. — Stephen Hawking

The reason people need advice on using social media is that they're a much more complex and nuanced way to communicate than a conversation or email. — Alexis Ohanian

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. — Alexis Ohanian

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

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics. — Robert A. Heinlein

Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy. — Leif Enger

We're all what we read to a very considerable degree. So — David McCullough

We're all dying from the moment we're born. That's all we do our entire lives, is die. — Megan Hart

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. — Alexis Ohanian

Nothing will replace good journalism. — Alexis Ohanian

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

There was a clear lesson here - and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants. — Alexis Ohanian

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, — Alexis Ohanian

Find People Who Give a Damn; Hire Them; Repeat — Alexis Ohanian

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

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

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

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it. — Alexis Ohanian

I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small. — Alexis Ohanian

In October 1805, Stoddard's tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson gave them the standard Great Father talk: "We are become as numerous as the leaves of the trees, and, tho' we do not boast, we do not fear any nation. . . . My children, we are strong, we are numerous as the stars in the heavens, & we are all gun-men." He followed the threat with the carrot: if they would be at peace with one another and trade with the Americans, they could be happy. (In reply, one of the chiefs said he was glad the Americans were as numerous as the stars in the skies, and powerful as well. So much the better, in fact, for that meant the government should be strong enough to keep white squatters off Indian lands.) — Stephen E. Ambrose

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

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process. — Alexis Ohanian

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