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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed | Alexis Ohanian

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies, businesses or charities, the results can be absolutely stunning. In this book, Alexis will share his ideas, tips and even his own doodles about harnessing the power of the web for good, and along the way, he will share his philosophy with young entrepreneurs all over the globe. At 29, Ohanian has come to personify the dorm-room tech entrepreneur, changing the world without asking permission. Within a couple of years of graduating from the University of Virginia, Ohanian did just that, selling reddit for millions of dollars. He's gone on to start many other companies, like hipmunk and breadpig, all while representing Y Combinator and investing in over sixty other tech startups. WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION is his personal guidebook as to how other aspiring entrepreneurs can follow in his footsteps.

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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed | Alexis Ohanian

Finally reading Ohanian's "Without Their Permission." It's fun to read, but the animating idea—the fundamental equality and opportunity of the internet ("all links are created equal")—was already shopworn in 2013. It's a fossil now.

It would be great if someone like Ohanian, or a thought-leader like Shirky or Weinberger, dug deep and analyzed how and why so much went wrong, to put alongside the many descriptions of things going right.

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