Podcast Episodes featuring Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Ohanian: All parents, including dads, should have six months of paid family leave

Decoder with Nilay Patel - November 13, 2019 05:01 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Reddit co-founder and Initialized Capital managing partner Alexis Ohanian talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he became a "dadvocate" for paid paternity leave. Ohanian explains how the medical complications faced by his wife, tennis star Serena Williams, woke him up to the problem, and how...

China’s National Day; Alexis Ohanian; Papa John’s new CEO; Squawk Pod analysis with Becky Quick

Squawk Pod - October 01, 2019 15:06 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 450 ratings
Becky Quick, Wilfred Frost, and Mike Santoli kick off the first trading day of the fourth quarter. The corporate stories that had our team talking: China’s National Day celebrations, juxtaposed with escalating protests in Hong Kong, and the real estate fallout from WeWork’s IPO drama. Papa John’...

Alexis Ohanian joins Influencers with Andy Serwer

Influencers - July 19, 2019 04:56 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer sits down with Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and co-founder & managing partner of Initialized Capital. In a wide-ranging interview, Ohanian discusses the role of race in his marriage with tennis great Serena Williams and raising a mixed-ra...

E875: Founder & CEO Andrew Parker built Papa to solve loneliness across generations with “grandkids on demand” companionship & non-skilled assistance, shares progress since YC, expanding & pursuing partnership w/ Medicare, & securing $2.4m from Alexis Ohanian

This Week in Startups - Video - November 16, 2018 19:58 - Video ★★★★ - 244 ratings
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E875: Founder & CEO Andrew Parker built Papa to solve loneliness across generations with “grandkids on demand” companionship & non-skilled assistance, shares progress since YC, expanding & pursuing partnership w/ Medicare, & securing $2.4m from Alexis Ohanian

This Week in Startups - November 16, 2018 19:58 ★★★★★ - 762 ratings

#96: Building Reddit, Posterous.com & Initialized Capital with Alexis Ohanian & Garry Tan

Breaking Into Startups - August 17, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 262 ratings
Today, we have two amazing people behind the widely successful early stage venture capital firm, Initialized. Today, they discuss the power of coaching, the cryptocurrency space, building teams and community, and some tech trends to watch out for. Dubbed as "Mayor of the Internet," Alexis Ohania...

Ep 319 - Keep the Internet Open: Alexis Ohanian

Mixed Mental Arts - February 25, 2018 10:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 341 ratings
From November, 2013. Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection Act, he earned a spot in The Daily Dot's top ten most influential Interne...

Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

How I Built This with Guy Raz - August 31, 2017 04:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratings
With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the Internet." Today, despite growing pains, personal issues and persistent trolls, Reddit has over 300 million monthly users and is valued at 1.8 billion dol...

20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Surprises About Making The Move Into VC & Why Alexis Believes All The Best Investors Have Operating Experience

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch - December 12, 2016 09:37 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 292 ratings
Alexis Ohanian is co-founder of Reddit & Initialized Capital. After graduating from UVA in 2005, Alexis and his co-founder Steve Huffman started Reddit, which they sold in 2006 to Conde Nast. In 2015, he returned to a full-time capacity with Steve Huffman as the two returned to the helm of a ful...

Unravelling Reddit with Alexis Ohanian

StarTalk Radio - April 08, 2016 22:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the “front page of the internet” with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Learn about how Reddit got started, net neutrality, trolls and more. With BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis and co-host Eugene Mirman.

#18 Alexis Ohanian

How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black - December 09, 2015 11:33 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
In his early 20’s Alexis Ohanian and his partner Steve Huffman started the popular social media site Reddit.com which made him a millionaire after they sold the site to Condé Nast in 2006.  Ohanian has gone on to be a internet entrepreneur, activist and investor.  He’s got a unique and ...

Ep. 60 Alexis Ohanian - Ear Biscuits

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link - March 13, 2015 16:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22.3K ratings
Entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of reddit, Alexis Ohanian, joins Rhett & Link this week to talk about how a Waffle House in Virginia played an important role in the creation of one of the most popular websites in the world, the gravity associated with protecting the internet as a level playi...

Ep 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners

The Tim Ferriss Show - October 09, 2014 16:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14.3K ratings
Alexis Ohanian is best known for being: - On the Forbes "30 under 30" list multiple times (then he turned 30)- A co-founder of reddit and hipmunk- In the very first class of Y Combinator, arguably the world's most selective startup "accelerator" (bootcamp)- Investor or advisor to more t...

Product Hunt Radio: Episode 14 w/ Alexis Ohanian & Amanda Peyton

Product Hunt Radio - July 14, 2014 15:13 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
On my trip to NYC last week, I swung into Brooklyn to record another episode of PHR with the awesome Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder of reddit, Partner at YC) and Amanda Peyton (Co-founder of Grand St.). We chatted about reddit's upcoming (and long-overdue) mobile app, crack for beards, and ...

Ep73 - Alexis Ohanian

Mixed Mental Arts - November 04, 2013 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 341 ratings
Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit out of his dorm room at the University of Virginia. As a leader of the grass-roots movement that overturned Congress's Stop Online Piracy Act and Senate IP Protection Act, he earned a spot in The Daily Dot's top ten most influential Internet Rights activists of 20...

Alexis Ohanian

Smart People Podcast - October 07, 2013 03:08 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 702 ratings
Alexis Ohanian- Author of Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed, co-founder of Reddit, internet entrepreneur, and advisor to Hipmunk and Breadpig. While Chris and I were in our dorm room playing FIFA 2001 on the Playstation2, Alexis Ohanian and his roommate, Ste...