Alexis Ohanian
65 statements across 5 episodes · 31 bullish · 13 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2016 by Alexis Ohanian · said 56 times in 22 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (45), Ted Blosser (3), Garry Tan (3), Mark Mullen (2), Steve Huffman (1), Max Altman (1), Gary Liu (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- 20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- 20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- 20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- 20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- 20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Alexis Ohanian, oldest first
Dec 12, 2016 negative
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Dec 12, 2016 positive
Ohanian: Investors with founder experience yield better venture results
“And the ones who can do that best are the ones who have actually done this stuff before, because they're coming at it from a place of being a practitioner. So there's automatic empathy. There's automatic respect from both parties. And I think it just yields, i…”
Dec 12, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 negative
Ohanian: Most seed investors lack founder and operational experience
“Turns out there were not a ton of people doing this kind of early stage seed investing who were willing to do the work or even could do the work. Because they just hadn't been founders before. They hadn't been makers or doers before.”
Dec 12, 2016 positive
Ohanian: Kindness in venture capital is a smart long-term investment strategy
“A hundred percent. Yes, because kindness is a long-term investment, and if you're a smart investor, you are thinking about the long-term. Kindness does not mean being weak or being dumb. It just means looking at the world as though it is not this purely zero-s…”
Dec 12, 2016 positive
Jan 27, 2017 positive
Blosser: Initialized hired Kim-Mai Cutler to coach portfolio enterprise branding
“I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through ho…”
Oct 25, 2019 positive
Reddit Needed Alexis Ohanian's Charisma to Get Into Y Combinator
“You know, Alexis then and now has always been a very, like, high charisma person, an easy conversation, kind of a charming, funny person, and so in the early days of Reddit, even in that story I just told you, those skills were really important to us because I…”
Nov 19, 2020 positive
Ohanian: VC diversity is a capitalism issue, not a social justice one
“I would like to see more people doing this job who don't look like you and me, Harry, because I want to make more money because that's actually how we're going to have better things. Like, and this isn't like a social justice argument. This is a, we have 24 ho…”
Nov 19, 2020
Ohanian: Resigned from Reddit board in 2020 requesting Black successor
“You know, after the murder of George Floyd and really thinking about sort of the role that I want to play in the world, I realized I needed to step down from the board of Reddit. I did that in June and you know, was very relieved to see that they honored my re…”
Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 bullish
Ohanian: Online community relationships are often stronger than offline ones
“Online communities matter more to people than offline ones, and the relationships that people make, what I mean is, like, the community, like, capital C, like, you're my community, you're my people, you're my tribe, I want to hug you, like, people, like, that …”
Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 bullish
Ohanian: Major social networks are actively being unbundled by Gen Z founders
“We're already seeing it. Absolutely. And I'm talking to founders every day. Gen Z founders who are like the way smarter versions of me graduating college. They've seen the mess that we've made over the last 15 years. They are actively building better platforms…”
Nov 19, 2020 positive
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Nov 19, 2020 neutral
Ohanian: VC deals split between consensus access plays and contentious nascent bets
“There's the like intelligence test type deals where, you know, it's a repeat founder, really strong, obvious market. Maybe they're just taking a second swing at the thing they had done before. So you know, they're capable. You've worked with them before. Like …”
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Aug 7, 2024 bullish
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Ohanian used GP 'silver bullet' to invest in Angel City FC
“And there are some companies that look like that, but then there are others, and I'd put those in the categories, where we needed to build a release valve to basically silver bullet, and just say, even though everyone is vehemently against doing this deal, you…”
Aug 7, 2024 neutral
Aug 7, 2024 bearish
Aug 7, 2024
Ohanian: Building community requires unsexy brute force execution
“When people talk about building community, they talk about the fancy, fluffy, oh, we have a community. No one talks about the actual work that it takes. And it's just this. It is unsexy. It's not glamorous. It's brute force. It's showing up. It's doing the wor…”
Aug 7, 2024 negative
Ohanian: Sports lacking viral social media highlights missing long-term value
“If you can't show me a sport where the highlights go viral on social media, the freest market of ideas that has ever existed in the world, You might have some stuff missing, and I don't know what the there is, but there's something missing.”
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Alexis Ohanian: Most sports teams fail to utilize software force multipliers
“So many of the things that we do are done better, cheaper, faster using software. Built tools so founders can help themselves using software. It's a force multiplier. We built things into our teams. Like even the merchandising around that thank you video app. …”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Alexis Ohanian: Top creators can build massive businesses around commodity products
“As long as Jimmy's happy, as long as you're making something you truly stand behind, I'm long on it all day. Even if it's a fucking commodity, right? You can break through with something that is solved in terms of making it.”
Aug 7, 2024 negative
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Ohanian: Private equity entry into sports leagues is necessary and positive
“I think it's a good thing. On the whole, to have more dollars and more sophisticated managers involved I get the, there is this tension of, like, what are their incentives long term? And I think always gonna be some balance, but there's only so many billionair…”
Aug 7, 2024 negative
Alexis Ohanian: Initialized could have returned Fund I by selling Zenefits
“I should have sold, we got, we could have returned the fund once over in whenever the fidelity markdown was, like literally putting an SPV together to sell Zenefits and then the markdown, the fidelity markdown happened and it killed the SPV. That was one, that…”
Aug 7, 2024
Alexis Ohanian personally funded reality TV show 'The Off Season' for women's soccer
“What's crazy, so I funded a reality show called The Off Season, which was 11 national team and professional women soccer players in a house for three weeks for an off season in Miami. They trained together, they partied together, they lived together, cameras r…”
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Alexis Ohanian: LA Golf Club is structured like a software startup
“And when we started the TGL team, LA golf club, I was, I had learned a lot of lessons and I realized, okay, one, I'm going to make sure I own and control this thing. And two, we're going to build this with all of the effectiveness and software that any tech st…”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Ohanian: Institutional capital will make professional sports teams more sophisticated and profitable
“As those private dollars come in, these teams are going to get more sophisticated. Because people are going to show up and they're going to say, look, why are you here? Oh, because my daddy gave me this job. Okay, well that's nice, but are you the best person …”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Aug 7, 2024
Alexis Ohanian: Top sports operators must be immune to fame
“And unfortunately, that drug can bring out the best in people, but also the worst, and so I think the most effect, and as I've gotten to know more and more owners, the most effective operators in sports have an immunity to that drug, and it's this drug of, lik…”
Aug 7, 2024 bearish
Aug 7, 2024
Ohanian: Serena Williams Was Driven by Winning Trophies, Not Loving Training
“She did not love the process all the time, and she'd be the first to admit, like, I am doing this thing because I want to win. I do it for the trophy. I do it for the outcome, and obviously, look, being a professional athlete at that level is much harder than …”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Ohanian: Media era creates greater commercial opportunities for role players
“I do think in this new era, you're actually gonna find more opportunities for those role players Because you're gonna see folks who have fans that don't just have fans for their work on the court or on the pitch or on the track. They have fans because they're …”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Aug 7, 2024
Ohanian: Sports franchises were historically family trophy assets without exits
“Historically, sports teams, certainly in the United States, and I think in the rest of the world, were just basically rich family toys, and they were inherited by multiple generations, and there wasn't really an exit for them.”
Aug 7, 2024
Ohanian: Angel City NWSL expansion fee was $1 million
“So, to buy an expansion was a million dollars back then. Now you obviously need another few million dollars to, like, actually finance the team, but remember, an entire team had sold for four million dollars, so even the million dollar expansion fee was pretty…”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Ohanian: Tech Will Drive a 90/10 Power Law in Sports Franchise Valuation
“I think it will be a power law, but even in the big four in America, I think you'll see a power law where maybe it's ninety-ten even where so much of the value is going to very few of the teams because we know that's what software does.”
Aug 7, 2024 bullish
Ohanian: Reality sports docuseries across men's and women's sports will be a gold mine
“In this new world, you're going to see so many more, and it won't just be women's sports, because you do have to tell the stories around women's sports differently, but it'll also be applied to male sports, like we've seen with drivers surviving elsewhere, and…”
Aug 7, 2024 bearish
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Ohanian Previously Advised Founders Against Starting Sports Tech Companies
“There's a lot of this tech should have happened a decade ago, 15 years ago, but none of the best entrepreneurs, we all, I certainly talk them out of doing it, because I was like, you're never going to be able to sell your way in.”