Alexis Ohanian Quotes

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

We started as a small newspaper company and grew by providing competition and innovation in stale, near monopolistic markets.

New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.

Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.