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Alexis Ohanian
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Alexis Ohanian is an internet entrepreneur and investor, best known for co-founding Reddit and the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital.
Biography
Alexis Kerry Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an Armenian-American internet entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz and served as its executive chairman. His work also includes co-founding Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, and serving as a partner at the startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator.
Ohanian helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk and founded the social enterprise Breadpig. In his book Without Their Permission, he shares ideas for using the internet to build communities, businesses, technologies and charities. He is based in Florida, where he lives with his wife, tennis player Serena Williams, and their two daughters.
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Books by Alexis Ohanian
Without their permission
Without Their Permission presents Ohanian’s ideas, tips and entrepreneurial philosophy for using the web for good. Drawing on his experience co-founding Reddit, it explores the internet’s potential to support new communities, technologies, businesses and charities.