The Kim Kardashian of Silicon Valley.
People whose job is to be seen more than to, you know, build something.
People whose job is to be seen more than to, you know, build something.
Wrote: 2 books
Invested: in dozens of companies
Advised: hundreds of founders as a partner in YC
Alexis is an investor in 42Floors. Easily one of the nicest, most supportive, most helpful investors/peers/role models I've ever come across. And yes, he's an activist! So he self-promotes. Explicitly for the cause of an open internet. And I'm so incredibly grateful that he promotes a cause I care so much about, but over which I have so little influence.
Investor, yes indeed.
1. That just isn't true
2. If it were true, you don't think that early investment (in time, energy, ingenuity, whatever) pays off later? That you need a good foundation to build a house?
Source: I was at reddit until 2011.
This all sounds very personal, do you know Alexis?
Oh he did actually build some stuff? But it doesn't meet my arbitrary criteria for notability/novelty!
To be fair, this may be true of all successful projects.
Reddit did get a number of things right, but it still won't last. They may look back at killing /r/reddit.com as a huge mistake; once upon a time, people did really talk about Reddit as one big community, and there was some sense of that. That's not the case anymore.
reddit's traffic has consistently doubled every year for the last 6 years.
It seems like you realized this by the end of your comment but it didn't dissuade you from hitting 'reply.'