The Tartan Online: “Go forth and suck.”
It’s not the type of advice that Carnegie Mellon students are accustomed to hearing, but that was Alexis Ohanian’s message to attendees of his presentation in McConomy Auditorium last Tuesday evening. Ohanian, a co-founder of the popular social news website Reddit, serial entrepreneur, and Internet activist, stopped at Carnegie Mellon on his tour to promote his book Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed, which was published last October.
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The title of this article through me off a little bit- it sounds as though Ohanian's lecture was a failure, and as I was reading the article I was looking for indication of that. One example was when the article " Ohanian passed along advice to the sparsely populated auditorium about the importance of having the entrepreneurial mindset" indicating that the lecture was unpopular. But then I realized the talk itself was about the importance of failure, not that the talk had been a failure. This is something I've read about on the green page a lot and I think although Ohanian's experiences as the founder of Reddit are very different from what our own futures may be heading towards, this idea of failing as a necessary part of the path to success is universal.
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