Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanianis an Armenian-American internet entrepreneur, activist and investor based in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, best known for co-founding the social news website Reddit, helping launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and starting the social enterprise Breadpig. He is a partner at Y Combinator, and is also the executive chairman of Reddit. Ohanian is in a relationship with Serena Williams...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth24 April 1983
CountryUnited States of America
The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.
I like sarcasm. I like snark.
If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.
Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.
Nothing will replace good journalism.
The first version of everything is janky,
There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.
Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.
I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
We were very, very lucky being in the first round of Y Combinator because that alone generated a lot of interest. A lot of readers of Paul Graham were just excited to see what was going to come up. And we were the first ones to launch.