Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian’s Biography
Alexis Ohanian is a startup founder and investor in Brooklyn, NY.
After graduating from UVA in 2005, Alexis and his co-founder Steve Huffman started reddit, a top 50 US website.
Now a reddit board member, Alexis focuses his time and energy to founding and investing in companies that fit his model of making something people love and making the world suck less.
Alexis helped launch hipmunk and ran marketing/pr/community before becoming an advisor and joining the fight against SOPA & PIPA.
He invests and advises over eighty tech startups. He's Y Combinator's Ambassador to the East, co-founder of the non-profit IHAS, and wrote a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission.
He's also got a show on The Verge called Small Empires about NY tech startups -- the founders who create and the people who use these digital platforms.
Along the way, Alexis spoke at TED, volunteered in Armenia as a Kiva Fellow, and was named on Forbes 30 Under 30 list two years in a row (and then turned 30).
He proudly doodled the logos for all three of his startups and loves his cat, Karma.