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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.
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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.
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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.