Alexis Ohanian Quotes

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

Find out what people want and help them get it.

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings.

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen!

Let's be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

Social media is kind of the same across the board, so you just have to know how to engage your audience, and you will be popular on any platform that comes up.

I don't really care if people don't like me. The only thing I care about is if they are reading my website.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want