Alexis Ohanian
Co-founder, Reddit
Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder of the social news aggregation website Reddit. Shortly after graduating from UVA, he and classmate Steve Huffman founded the company with startup capital from Y Combinator, and in 2006 it was bought by Condé Nast. Ohanian stayed on for three more years until he retired to pursue a Kiva fellowship in Armenia. In 2009 he founded Breadpig, an "uncorporation" that creates and sells "geeky products" and donates all its non-sustainable profits to charity.
According to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian the most active users tend to be left-of-center or libertarian, and both those groups advocate for the legalization of marijuana.
Ohanian’s new company raises money for the developing world by marketing products aimed at “geek” culture. The company’s first high-profile project has generated enough revenue to open a new school […]
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How to tailor a link so that it soars to the top of the site.
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In a highly-publicized episode, Reddit defied its parent company Conde Nast and ran pro-marijuana-legalization ads on the site—for free.
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After being purchased in 2006 by publisher Conde Nast, the company has walked a fine line between attempting to monetize its traffic and remaining true to its community.
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Alexis Ohanian calls the world of web community sites “a kind of brotherhood”—and pokes a little bit of fun at his company’s rivals.
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Reddit’s co-founders were impressed—and deeply proud—when good intentions online started translating into real-world results.
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In Reddit’s early days, the site’s co-founders submitted content under a variety of fake identities in order to make it look like there were more users than there actually were.
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When Reddit’s co-founders approached seed venture fund Y-Combinator to ask for money, they were unceremoniously dismissed. Half a train-ride later, they re-invented the company and created a social news giant.
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A conversation with the co-founder of Reddit.
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