Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on how the internet can make you more awesome
发布时间 2013-10-30 17:18:08 来源
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Reddit calls itself the front page of the internet. Almost. Quantcast ranks it #31 in the U.S.. But with 81 million monthly views worldwide, it's ahead of CNN and the New York Times. Celebrities, book authors, even President Obama are hosting Ask Me Anything threads to reach that massive audience, which skews young, male and libertarian. Alexis Ohanian and cofounder Steve Huffman started Reddit in the inaugural YCombinator class in 2005. After selling Reddit to Condé Nast in October of 2006, Alexis stayed on until 2010. Now, he invests in companies and advises other young entrepreneurs to have fun, make money, and do good on the internet. When he sat down with Jason in New York City, Alexis talked about the wonder of a multimillion dollar exit at age 23, avoiding censorship on reddit, and how tech leaders need to step up to politics in an era of SOPA, PIPA and NSA intrusions into privacy. His new book is Without Their Permission.
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Highlights:
2:02 When did you guys found Reddit, and why?
4:49 Take us to that moment when you got rejected (from YCombinator). This is the first year, there wasn't really a formal process.
6:03 Wait, so how do our heroes get back into YCombinator?
9:34 What's the state of Reddit today? It's been spun out of Conde Nast which purchased it for $30-40 million. What was that like?
11:50 How do you look at this massive success Reddit has become? Do you regret selling it? Do you wish you still owned it today?
15:20 So the Boston bombing happens. The Reddit community goes to work. I thought, to me, this isn't speculation as much as investigative journalism. What did you think when you saw the amount of attention Reddit got?
19:04 What do you think of sites like Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Gawker?
21:04 You're seeing at Buzzfeed that in addition to the listicles, they're hiring real journalists to do real journalism. LIke they used the slideshows and the reddit memes to get the traffic, to get the money, to get the real journalists?
22:06 How is Reddit as a business? How many people work there now?
22:39 Why did Reddit spin out from Conde Nast?
25:38 Let's talk about the dark side of Reddit. Any time you run a social network like this, and it's open, it seems like bad things happen. But it seems like Reddit is fighting to allow, sometimes, the bad things to occur. Or to allow the freedom of speech? Is that part of the reason it had to come out of Conde?
29:30 Why did you guys choose to not host images? Because everyone's talking about imgur. They grew off of Reddit. So why wouldn't that be Reddit's business?
34:59 Do you think Imgur could ever become a competitor?
36:40 Facebook chose to not allow anonymity... Obviously Reddit allows pseudonyms. What do you think about anonymity and the net?
39:10 Let's talk a little bit about your book, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century will be Made, Not Managed. What's the book about and why did you write it?
39:50 What do you think entrepreneurship is, and how did you become an entrepreneur?
40:50 What do you think has changed since you started as an entrepreneur almost 10 years ago?
41:50 What do you think about what's going on with the NSA, Prism, spying on Americans, Edward Snowden?
43:30 Facebook. What do you think about The Facebook?
46:19 Tell me about CISPA and PIPA, what it all is, and why you went on such a jihad about it.
51:15 How did your mom and dad influence your being an entrepreneur, and how do they look at your massive success today?
53:54 Tell me what you think about Google, and this Larry Page moonshot approach.
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