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Alexis Ohanian Shares How A German Comment Fueled His Rise To Success


Another truly entertaining episode in the "Spicy Ohanian Stories" tracks Alexis Ohanian telling of one random comment about his German that...

In 2005, basically the Kali Ma of Y Combinator, Paul Graham had told him that he sounded smarter when he spoke German. Volatility Smile continued: “German is the language of the gods, and of Kant and Hegel—of course we all sound smarter speaking it.” Philosophy flex! At the end of the day, Ohanian’s tweet pretty much reminds us that sometimes what irks us the most can become our best source of motivation.

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