Alexis Ohanian talks about the early days of reddit at Mass Challenge
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- 1. My reddit storyThe early days alexis ohanian @kn0thing alexis@breadpig.com
- 4. See this and be the first to tweet to win a free copy of xkcd: volume 0!
- 5. My reddit storyThe early days alexis ohanian alexis@breadpig.com
- 7. Steve
- 8. Steve
- 17. (NOT US)
- 48. Tweet: “Your favorite cheese @masschallenge @breadpig”
- 56. Last 30 days 7Muniques 150M impressions
- 60. Start!
- 61. Co-founders matter, a lot
- 72. Programmers are from Mars,business pplare from???
- 76. Look for opportunities to do something awesome
- 78. Working harder makes up for being dumber
- 80. Working harder makes up for being dumber (but it's not a substitute)
- 81. Respondquicklyto calls & email. Do so as a human.
- 83. The element of surprise
- 86. Hand-mailing >300 sets of stickers is not fun work, but it’s rewarding.
- 87. Early adopters.
- 88. Early adopters.
- 89. no one wants to use your website
- 90. My mom
- 91. only your mom wants to use your website
- 93. FAIL
- 95. Make something people want
- 96. Make something people love
- 97. Give them a reason to talk about it.
- 98. Know about competitors. But don’t care.
- 100. you don’t need PRfirms
- 106. stickers, wtf??
- 108. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Wasn’t going to be a lawyer
- The plan was pretty simple, order food from your phone. Pick it up when you get there.
- The plan was pretty simple, order food from your phone. Pick it up when you get there.
- The plan was pretty simple, order food from your phone. Pick it up when you get there.
- The plan was pretty simple, order food from your phone. Pick it up when you get there.
- Happy alien after acquisition
- We’ve grown a lot since
- The first ppl to believe in us after our parents
- My team
- The community
- Choose wisely, but there’s good news, because most – if not all - of you in this room are programmers
- You have the power, and can learn a lot of the business side- no MBA required
- Don’t choose your editor by its logo alone
- If there’s one big disconnect between programming and non-programming cofounders
- It’s that a day could be spent staring at a computer screen that results in a few flashes of genius that solves a very complicated program. Like most arts, it could be a nap that inspires you.
- Contrast that with the non-programmer, who sees typing on a keyboard as being directly related to productivity
- Cannot under value cheerleading, esp given how many startups fail because they simply quit
- Cannot under value cheerleading, esp given how many startups fail because they simply quit
- But he/she has to go above and beyond. No excuse to not always be banging on the keyboard to make some small gain somewhere.
- Ok, well, not entirely
- Let’s modify that
- That bar has been set low (thanks, most businesses!)
- Think of your last customer service exp
- Look for these opportunities, always
- Something useful about twitter
- Great recent example of happy surprise in a mundane place
- Stickers!
- These ppl are important, very important
- They are gold, hence the color change
- Always remember this
- Our users did our advertising and pr