If you are a Teenager There, calm, there is still hope for you to Be Successful businessperson.
Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman met at their campus dormitory room. They synchronize with the blessing of having the same passion in the world of video games. Since that time, they set up a range of business ventures until in 2005; they developed a website that is cited the most influential in the world: Reddit. Up to now, Reddit attracted more than 1 billion page view monthly, and the ability to turn an ordinary news became a viral sensation.
A year after the setting up of large firms, a Reddit bought Reddit with sufficient numbers to accompany the young millionaire Ohanian so his 23 years. In his book, Without Their Permission, Alexis Ohanian told me about the story of the beginning of Reddit. An awful lot of lessons we can take from here, to prove that the road to success in the Internet world it should not be by selling your soul.
Build confidence with doing a variety of jobs
Alexis Ohanian has low self-confidence when small. He was the son of the highest in his class, fat, with a name like girls. Then his parents bought him a PC on the tenth birthday, even though they do not understand about PC. They let Ohanian do anything on a PC that is as long as he does not ruin it. That is when he found his passion in the world of computers. "I was too focused on video games and computers to not realize how uncool I am at that moment." In addition, in College, he tried a variety of jobs. Start the chef and waiter at Pizza Hut, the FedEx warehouse workers, and parking attendants. At fourteen, he trained his first public speaking with applying for a sales position in charge of exhibition showing the product every one hour, although none is watching it.
"If you've ever had a bad time at your first public speaking, in a room full of an audience with the entire audience to hate and not paying attention to you, then later you'll be fine," he said.
Find his determination at the dinner table
"My father has been working as a travel agent for over thirty years," he said. One night at the dinner table, his father telling his story about the existence of the internet world which interfered with his profession. The source of his income cut down exhausted after models switched to ticket booking online. "Conversations at the dinner table it left a deep impression on me, that the internet is a powerful tool, but cruel. Then, I decided that I should. "
According to him, we have to be opportunistic market facing the changing. When massive changes happen, we need to identify new business models and adapt. Better, we need to be the ones that caused the massive changes. In addition, from a conversation at the dinner table, Ohanian found his determination to always be the one that caused the change.
Start early
While still at school, he has run a nonprofit called FreeAsBird.org, which aims to help small nonprofit to build their website. Then, for the promotion, he spread the email on many of its clients. The client does not know identity Alexis Ohanian as a student. "In school, I was only a child. In the online world, I have the authority. My parents are not contesting it although I think they do not know if I send email on foreigners. "
Never denied
In College, the business model he designed with Steve Huffman, MyMobileMenu ever rejected from a class entrepreneur. Then he brought his business to Singapore to meet with Paul Graham, Y Combination’s owner. Even though it had entered an interview session, again rejected his business model. Had the depression, the next morning he again got a call from Paul Graham. He said, "Sorry, we made a mistake. We dislike you people, but we love you people. "
Then, on the second interview, they bring new ideas. This time, they convinced Graham about a content aggregator that can be user-controlled. This was the forerunner of Reddit, with its main elements, voting up and down arrows capable of providing control over the fate of the story. Reddit then developed as a crowdsourcing site content one of the world's top 40 sites. Barrack Obama even opens the forum "ask me anything" here. Reddit also hosts a worldwide protest movement against Online Piracy Stop Act, to raise more than $100,000 to Donor’s Choose. org.
There are things that are more difficult than the world entrepreneur is
Just a month after setting up Reddit, Alexis received word that her boyfriend was being a comma. To coincide with it, she got word that her mother was suffering from a brain tumor. When later the mother died, Alexis then understands the importance of appreciating life by doing things that just loved it.
"I taped the writings remaining: 0 ' live ' on the wall of my room. If life is like a video game, then you have one chance, "he said. "Being an entrepreneur was the best decision I can make."
According to him, being a young entrepreneur gave her the freedom to prioritize family without sacrificing jobs. Up to now, over the last five years, he has launched a wide range of businesses, including a company social (Bread pig), travel search sites (Hipmunk), and an investment company (Das Capital) that has a stake in 25 startups. This is a great achievement for the young man who reached the status of multi milliard at the age of 23 years.
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