Alexis Ohanian
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292 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Jun
Alexis Ohanian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'll like, you want, you love that Beyonce video. Yeah. How many hours do you think Beyonce spent rehearsing the dance moves, rehearsing that song, singing over and over and over and over? Like, do not get seduced. And it's crazy. I... I don't know. I did not have anyone like sit me down and tell me that that explicitly and maybe it just ruins – maybe it just ruins life. We'll see.
But I need her to know anytime she sees excellence, the only reason she's seeing is because of countless, countless hours of trying and failing and practicing that led up to it that no one saw, that no one cared about. And with her mom as an example, she's got the goat of a role model and she does do tennis now twice a week. I think – I mean, she's got some good athletic genes, let's be honest.
No, but she might – I don't know. If she plays sports, the good news is her mom will be able to have a conversation with her early on about just what it's going to take. And if she wants to do it, God bless, we'll support her. But I'm not worried – It's weird. This is not a thing. Okay.
When I was a kid, I used to be pretty, I don't want to say anti-rich people, but like I distinctly remember going to UVA and I went to some good public schools in Howard County, Maryland. Like they were fine. They were solid. But I got to, I played football with kids who had free lunches and kids whose parents were lawyers. So I got exposed to a pretty decent range of kids, which was great.
And then I got to UVA and I finally met like rich people. And I was so excited because I was like, these kids are so soft. I was like, this is going to be great. This is my competition. This is phenomenal. And it tracked. But now I'm on the other end. And I'm not trying to snuff for sympathy here. But I am much more appreciative of the challenges that wealthier families have
making sure their kids have, have it, have that grit, have that, whatever you want to call it. And so that's something we're acutely aware of and mindful of and hoping for. And like, I, like I said, I want Olympia to work either. It's gotta be either a retail job or food service, like some kind of service job for sure. Like high school, like it's good enough for Papa. It's good enough for you.
Like I need you to experience these moments and feel like,
some kind of connection like you're gonna have you're gonna be fine right but i need you to be a productive member of society i need you to be a good person i need you to know the value of a hard day's work and and like i said it's a weird thing to navigate obviously serena doesn't have any kind of uh equipment for that uh and and everything her parents put up with in order to give her that life like
It's a wild perspective, but it's something we actually think about and talk about quite a bit. And the good news is, at least Olympia, Adira, Adira's fun too. They're tracking to be good humans, which I feel like is number one. And that if they can be good humans who are also productive members of society, I feel like we're living the dream.
But there is that part of me that just thinks you want... You want to create just enough of that strife to create that resilience and that ability to thrive. And it's so ironic because if you look at so many of the stories of excellence, there's always some version, there's some part, there's something that happens that creates it. And it's usually strife.
And so it's like, on the one hand, you don't want to like, part of the reason you did the thing was so that your kid wouldn't have to endure the thing. And yet you still find yourself saying, God, I just kind of wish they would have to endure some of that strife.
But it's that, I mean, like that's, to me, that's actually been one of the most satisfying parts of fatherhood is, is seeing your kid fail and, and then seeing your kid get it right, I get so much, there's so much more of a high from that than seeing my kid get it right the first time.
I really enjoy, and I'm not sadistic, like it just feels so much more satisfying because you're like, okay, that actually feels like a moment where you, there's some part of you that just like a synapse fired and some line, some dot in your mind connected with this other dot where it's like, okay, I figured it out. I couldn't do it before, I can do it now. And it could be,
right now it's it's like multiplication and it's just being able to start to see those dots really connect that i just i love it's very satisfying it's like a pokemon uh evolving in front of your eyes i love it alexis it's been such a joy honestly this has been amazing just learnings from you from whether it's tech to ai to fatherhood to brotherhood to love this is great this is great
Be useful. It's Arnold Schwarzenegger quote. Sorry, Arnold.
Oh, I didn't take it. Do I have to have taken it? No. Paul Graham told me to get rid of the Reddit alien and change the name to Octopop. And I said, no, I'm keeping SNHU, and I'm going to keep calling it Reddit.
It worked out. Octopop, would you all be using Octopop right now?
And he wanted to change the alien to an octopus. I'm like, Paul, come on. We're not doing that. Brilliant guy, just not great with the branding.
Aside from listening to my podcast, the good news is there are more avenues than ever because there are more and more people talking about this than ever. What book are we reading tonight? Like, what are you most excited about? And then when I'm on the clock for weekends in particular, I really try to lock in. And so it can be whatever you need to do.
Obviously, your family is going to have different prescriptions, but create those traditions, create those routines. And that's one thing I would give advice to myself at 20 about over again. When I had more free time, when I had more youthful vigor, if I had more discipline, I would have been 10 times more productive. And it shows up in sneaky ways. If
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