Alexis Ohanian: Reddit Founder
Alexis Ohanian is a tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of Reddit who helps founders build disruptive companies and scale innovative ideas.
- Highlights:
- Co-founder of Reddit
- Venture capitalist and co-founder of Initialized Capital
- Early investor in Coinbase, Instacart, Opendoor, and Patreon
- Author of Without Their Permission
- Formats:
Keynote Speaker and Technology Entrepreneur
- Audiences:
Entrepreneurs, startup founders, investors, technology leaders, and organizations interested in innovation, venture capital, and building disruptive businesses.
- Outcomes:
- Insights into building and scaling startups in the digital economy
- Lessons on innovation, resilience, and learning from failure
- Strategies for creating impact through entrepreneurship and technology
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000
Keynote Topics
SPEECH TITLES
- The Dividends of Diversity
- The Founder’s Journey – Myths, Madness, and Milestones
- Make the Future
- Resigning Privilege
- DADvocacy
Talent Short Bio
Alexis Ohanian is a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and internet advocate best known as the co-founder of Reddit, one of the most influential online communities in the world. He launched the company with a college roommate while studying at University of Virginia, and the platform quickly grew into one of the largest websites on the internet. The company was funded by Y Combinator in 2005 and sold to Condé Nast in 2006.
Ohanian later returned to Reddit as executive chairman to help lead the company’s transformation and renewed growth as an independent platform valued at billions of dollars. He is also the co-founder of Initialized Capital, where he has invested early in some of the most successful technology startups of the last decade, including Coinbase, Instacart, Opendoor, and Patreon.
A national bestselling author of Without Their Permission, Ohanian is a vocal advocate for the open internet, entrepreneurship, STEM education, and paid family leave. Through his speaking and writing, he shares candid stories about building startups, learning from failure, and creating meaningful impact without waiting for permission.
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Tech founder and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian embraces disruption, beginning with his Waffle House epiphany that becoming an attorney was not his destiny to co-founding Reddit in his UVA dorm and launching the venture upon graduation. Ultimately selling the iconic company for millions, Ohanian’s entrepreneurial journey is a business school case study and playbook for founders.
Ohanian is a vocal advocate for the open internet, STEM education, and paid family leave. He has lobbied on Capitol Hill and penned a New York Times op-ed, “Paternity Leave Was Crucial After The Birth of My Child, and Every Father Deserves It.” Ohanian also launched the Business Dad podcast, where he interviews fellow fathers about what it means to be a dad in today’s world and how they balance their careers and families.
If you expect Ohanian’s speeches to offer the formula for uncontested success, you would be surprised. Driven by curiosity and questions (not a well-designed strategy), Ohanian lessons are transparent admissions of beta failures.
His stories – punctuated with humility and humor – share the discoveries that shaped his worldview and an unrelenting commitment to make the world a better place – without permission.Alexis Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, M.D. He wrote the national bestselling book Without Their Permission and has been a vocal advocate for the open internet, STEM education and paid family leave.
Out of college, Ohanian co-founded Reddit, one of the largest websites in the U.S., which was funded by Y Combinator in 2005 and sold to Conde Nast in 2006. He returned as executive chairman in 2014 to help lead the turnaround of the now independent company that today is valued at over $10B. In 2016, he left Reddit to run the venture capital firm he co-founded, Initialized Capital, and built it to $100B in market value through early investments in companies like Coinbase, Opendoor, Instacart, Patreon, and Ro.
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