80 Quotes by Alexis Ohanian

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

There was a clear lesson here – and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

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