![]() The company passed on the idea but encouraged the duo to come up with another idea it could potentially fund. Īfter graduating from the University of Virginia in 2005 with degrees in commerce and history, Ohanian and friend Steve Huffman pitched the idea MyMobileMenu to Y Combinator. Eventually he began to make websites for nonprofit organizations for free, by "trick" them, hiding behind his email to disguise the fact that he was a teen doing this from his parent's basement. He spent time on message boards learning how to code and build websites. Ohanian says his obsession with technology started in middle school when he got a 33.6k dialup modem. He went to Howard High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, where he gave the student address for his graduating class in 2001. ![]() Ohanian's mother was an immigrant from Germany. His paternal grandparents came to the United States as refugees of the Armenian genocide. Early life Īlexis Kerry Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, New York. Ohanian is based in Florida, where he lives with his wife, tennis player Serena Williams, and their daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian.Īs of 2019, Forbes estimated Ohanian’s net worth as $70 million. He also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz. Alexis Kerry Ohanian ( Armenian: Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան born April 24, 1983) is an American Armenian internet entrepreneur and investor.
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