Alexis Ohanian - Biography - The Biographicon

Overview

Started reddit.com with Steve Huffman in June 2005, providing a protective layer for Steve so that all he had to worry about was developing the site. The reddit alien is also attributed to Alexis, who insisted on its inclusion before the site was even designed. Inspired by Google, he often changes the logo for holidays or just for random geeky reasons.

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Early Years

Born in New York City, he was stolen away to the suburbs of Maryland before his 4th birthday. Spending the next fourteen years there had a profound impact on his development. His fear of malls and minivans is attributed to this over-exposure.

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Now

Still working on all-things-non-technical for reddit but now a cog in the corporate machine that is Condé Nast.

Keeps up a blog at redditAll.com and has started a bizarre project known only as "breadpig."

There's also speculation that he's ghostwriting a book for web 2.0 design guru Pierre Francois.

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Y Combinator

Summer 2005

Alexis attended Y-Combinator in the summer of 2005, and co-founded Reddit, a source for what's new and popular online.

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The reddit alien

Renowned Doodle

Alexis first doodled the Reddit Alien into existence in April 17, 2005.

Alexis puts him in humiliating poses and on merchandise for his own amusement.

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Paul Graham

Y-Combinator Investor

Alexis attended Y-Combinator in the summer of 2005, and co-founded Reddit, a source for what's new and popular online.

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Daniel Terhorst

Y-Combinator, 2007

Daniel met Alexis on a couple different occasions during the Y-Combinator program in the summer of 2007. Alexis came to speak a couple times during the regular Tuesday dinners, and he was also present during Demo Day, when companies seed-funded by YC demonstrate what they have built to a large group of investors.

Daniel co-founded the Biographicon, an open site for collaborative biographies that mixes social networks with wikis.

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Steve Huffman

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Started reddit.com with Steve Huffman in June 2005, providing a protective layer for Steve so that all he had to worry about was developing the site. The reddit alien is also attributed to Alexis, who insisted on its inclusion before the site was even designed. Inspired by Google, he often changes the logo for holidays or just for random geeky reasons.