{"id":122564,"date":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122564"},"modified":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","slug":"alexis-ohanian-sucking-is-the-first-step-to-being-good-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=122564","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Ohanian: Sucking is the First Step to Being Good at Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90244076\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Alexis Ohanian has founded reddit, Breadpig, and hipmunk but he\u2019ll be the first one to tell you: \u201cI still don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen creating our next great work, we can be held up by failure, or by worrying what the world will think, but Ohanian urges us to remember that it\u2019s hard enough to get people to care about your success. The web allows us to fail and fail fast and we should embrace this dynamic. And when you do eventually traction, treat your customers like royalty. \u201cYour first 100 users are magical,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50079\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Alexis Ohanian: Sucking is the First Step to Being Good at Something<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Curious Brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexis Ohanian has founded reddit, Breadpig, and hipmunk but he\u2019ll be the first one to tell you: \u201cI still don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d When creating our next great work, we can be held up by failure, or by worrying what the world will think, but Ohanian urges us to remember that it\u2019s hard enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/alexis-ohanian-sucking-is-the-fi.jpg?fit=295%2C166&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50079,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50079","url_meta":{"origin":122564,"position":0},"title":"Alexis Ohanian: Sucking is the First Step to Being Good at Something","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"31\/03\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/90244076 Alexis Ohanian has founded reddit, Breadpig, and hipmunk but he'll be the first one to tell you: \"I still don't know what I'm doing.\" When creating our next great work, we can be held up by failure, or by worrying what the world will think, but Ohanian urges us\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;PPT\/ cool decks&quot;","block_context":{"text":"PPT\/ cool decks","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?cat=221"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120807,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120807","url_meta":{"origin":122564,"position":1},"title":"Gold Tonight","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"22\/09\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hotel Alexis \u2013 Gold Tonight from Hotel Alexis on Vimeo. 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