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I like sarcasm. I like snark.
Do not be scared of the incumbents.
Nothing will replace good journalism.
The first version of everything is janky.
I think everyone should learn how to code.
Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
Net neutrality is one where we the people are definitely on the ropes.
Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.
We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."
It's a fight to get anyone other than your mom to care about your startup.
Ramen in L.A. is much better than ramen in San Francisco. That's just a fact.
I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.
We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way
It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.
It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.
I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.
Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.
Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.
Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
I'm probably the worst Silicon Valley insider ever. I don't hang out with Silicon Valley people.
If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.
The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.
The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.
Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.
I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.
If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.
I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.
Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."
To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.
Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.
There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.
Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.
Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.
I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.
The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.
People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.
Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.
Reddit is a network where someone with a million karma points has an equal shot as someone with 10 karma points to hit the #1 post or comment.
The reality is, there's still so much we haven't yet figured out. There's still so much stuff that has not been made more, frankly, efficient.
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.
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.
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.
Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.
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.