Alexis Ohanian Quotes

AI is here to stay. Everything is faster and easier, so the bar for what a small team can produce is way higher. The work is accelerating just as fast, and the impact on how we live day-to-day is going to be huge.

Those are the kinds of bets we love to be making.

I spend most of my time building or helping builders build. It's crazy how many people spend so much of their time tweeting nonsense at me instead of building. Be useful.

If one really believes in “personal responsibility,” one should want the very best from all over the world here in USA to make themselves & Team America the best it can be. Iron sharpens iron.

Some days you move a mountain.
Some days you move a pebble.
Both count. Keep moving.

Entrepreneurs know that voice that keeps you up at night, the one that insists things could be better if you built them yourself. Eventually, you have to jump.

I’m glad I did. I am so grateful for what we're building here. It's my life's work.

We're absolutely going to have to figure out how our society adapts to a rapidly increasing wealth gap, it'll be required to preserve our republic, but the answer is definitely not taxing unrealized gains.

Americans vote two ways: with votes & dollars. The internet has democratized access to the public markets, financial data, and knowledge sharing....

I want great quests, not just great returns - companies I’ll be proud to tell my daughters about because of how they changed in the world for the better. IIRC Founders Fund coined this "choose good quests" meme and I think it's spot on.

The biggest secret I've learned about creating billion-dollar companies is that the best ideas look like bad ideas at first. If everyone agrees with you, you’re too late.

Founder CEO has to set the pace. Every day.

Grateful to all the builders who are devoting their lives to helping us unlock all the value in our universe to make life better for humanity.

In my 20s I thought never taking a vacation made me more committed. Now I realize it just made me less effective over time. Ofc creating a company means hard work when you’re on the clock—but resting well is part of the work. Batteries don’t recharge while still plugged in.

Being a founder, I know I'm biased, but Carlyle’s “Great Man Theory” seems pretty spot on, tho maybe incomplete: Individuals matter a lot when systems are young, broken, or in crisis. Structure sets the menu; people choose (+ sometimes redefine) the future.

Only a matter of time before we're using AI to implement much more insightful and less-gameable tests than the SAT.

It's an uncomfortable thing to say, but every great company starts as one person seeing reality more clearly than most.