Alexis Ohanian

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

“Waking up every morning with a company is a lot of pressure. But when you're aware of what other people are waking up with, it's a whole lot easier.”

“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.”

“The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.”

“The Internet is too transformative for incumbents to not want to try to stifle or curb it - incumbents in the sense of multinational corporations, governments, take your pick.”

“Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.”

“Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.”

“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]”

“Most redditors are at least college educated. A number of them have post- or, rather, graduate degrees. A number of them are in the IT tech world.”

“If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.”

“The reason why I think Reddit is still around and some of our competitors are not is because we were really adamant about maintaining the integrity of the site.”

“I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.”