Guten Tag!Wahoowah! I made it in the @CavalierDaily for being 30 under 30 in @Forbes
University graduate and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian set up a charity website which donates profits to organizations which, in his words, “make the world suck less.”
Geeks Converge on NYC to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills (Photos) @thedailybeast
A Word to the Resourceful @PaulG drops knowledge on what makes successful founders
We found the startups that did best were the ones with the sort of founders about whom we'd say "they can take care of themselves." The startups that do best are fire-and-forget in the sense that all you have to do is give them a lead, and they'll close it, whatever type of lead it is.
NY Tech Meetup Hosts Protest Against Sopa @Portfolio
“How many of you are working at companies that are hiring?” asked Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian of the crowd of an estimated 2,000 protestors who gathered outside the midtown Manhattan offices of Chuck Schumer and Katherine Gillibrand to protest their sponsorship the Protect IP Addresses Act (PIPA), the Senate's version of SOPA.
Hundreds of hands went up in the air, many belonging to employees at tech companies and startups throughout the New York area as well, presumably as entrepreneurs launching new businesses.
“Look at all the companies America that are looking to hire Americans right now!” continued Ohanian. “Sign up for Codecademy, learn how to program, this industry is hiring, it is innovating, and it is doing things to get this economy and America going again. And yet we have legislation that is threatening to stop it.”
"We're fighting against the wholesale destruction of the Internet"
"We're fighting against the wholesale destruction of the Internet," Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told a crowd of perhaps 1,000 people gathered in front of the midtown Manhattan offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrats who are co-sponsors of the Senate legislation. The crowd, organized by the New York Tech Meetup, also heard from Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow, Internet thinker Clay Shirky, Tumblr vice president and former White House policy hand Andrew McLaughlin, venture capitalist Brad Burnham, Demand Progress founder Aaron Swartz, "Filter Bubble" author and MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser, and Personal Democracy Media founder Andrew Rasiej.
Thanks for keeping the press coming! The fight isn't over, friends.
He's talking about lobbyists here, right?
David Hirschmann, who leads the Chamber ofCommerce’s initiative on intellectual property, said in an interview. “We will certainly use every tool in our toolbox to make sure members of Congress know what’s in these bills.”
Wikipedia blackout a 'gimmick', MPAA boss claims (I've got a few quotes here to the contrary)
"The American dream is still alive and kicking," said Reddit's Ohanian. "There is no other industry in the world where you can take an investment that's less than the cost of a Ford Focus, give it to some college students and create a $1bn business."
Founders of Reddit, Veoh and Craigslist join forces in anti-SOPA/PIPA discussion
“The protest for SOPA and PIPA has broad opposition that doesn’t come from the left or right,” said Ohanian, who attended the panel via live video stream. “And everyone agrees that this is horrible legislation. This looks a lot like lobbyist dollars at work.”
We're no longer testifying tomorrow because SOPA has been so flogged that the House is shelving it for the time being. Now to focus on PIPA. See you at our Senators' offices here in NY tomorrow! (Or via the livestream on reddit)
Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle - #SOPA #PIPA hit @NYTimes
“It’s encouraging that we got this far against the odds, but it’s far from over,” said Erik Martin, the general manager of Reddit.com, a social news site that has generated some of the loudest criticism of the bills. “We’re all still pretty scared that this might pass in one form or another. It’s not a battle betweenHollywood and tech, its people who get the Internet and those who don’t.”
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