Alexis Ohanian
Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six · 3 appearances on the record.
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Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder of Reddit and founder of venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. He also co-founded Initialized Capital and is the founding controlling owner of Angel City FC.
94statements → 37claims → 10claims resolved → 90%fully supported → 4.12/5average certainty → 2.15/5average debate potential → 4.2/5argument clarity · the sources → 58said about them ↓
9 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not yet assessed 25 not checkable as stated how the 37 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
17 predictions · 20 assertions · 15 opinions · 17 insights · 22 disclosures · 3 what ifs · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 37 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 10 are resolved, 2 are not yet assessed, and 25 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
The record, in short
What the tape says about how Alexis argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Expressed certainty vs assessment result
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4.2 / 5
directness 4.4 · coherence 4.3 ·
precision 4.1 · compression 3.6
redirected or did not address 1 of 30 assessed questions (3%). Watch them ▸
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256 words/min while actually speaking · 8.1 um and uh per 1k words · 18.4 false starts per 1k · 29.8% of pauses land inside a clause
Measured by listening to the audio itself: 19,457 words across 2 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →
How the interview went all their pushback → series average →
Across 3 rated episodes:
host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 1.3/10
setup questions received 59%
host pushback: the hardest questions Harry asked, tap to play ▶ 37:07“Why would you do it if you're a top one percent?” ▶ 51:37“What's the number one reason why this would not be a billion dollar company from here?” ▶ 53:23“Are we in a bubble for sports team enterprise value?” ▶ 5:35“In terms of initialized, what happened with initialized and why did you decide now is the time to leave and start the new firm?” ▶ 11:17“If there were learnings that maybe didn't hit like you thought they would, and that you maybe wouldn't take with you to seven, seven, six, what would those be?” ▶ 15:55“How do you think about your relationship to money today?”
when Alexis pushed back ▶ 51:08“Why, why is this, where'd the selling meme come from?” ▶ 41:51“No, no, no, sorry. Okay. The top line is 31 for the whole team.” ▶ 5:02“As an important point of order, though, is it just television that's convinced me that lawyers in England, you all have, is it required to wear the wigs and the outfits?” ▶ 11:34“Now, now I want to be clear. Fundraising is not success, right? Fundraising is not the goal.”
Everything Alexis Ohanian said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Ohanian: NWSL will be bigger than MLS in 10 years
“That's why I think the NWSL will be bigger than the MLS in 10 years. Because we can tell a story of excellence in women's football in America using the NWSL. But not the MLS.”
Ohanian: Yates Report scandal was best thing for NWSL overhaul
“But it was actually the best thing that could have happened, because. Look, it brought, sunlight is a great disinfectant. And so it cleansed, it really forced the league to overhaul everything.”
Ohanian: Female athletes outperform male athletes at content creation and storytelling
“And so they're so much more sophisticated about storytelling, about content creation. And so when you give them the opportunity, they are They're out, outperforming the men, and it, it's a different, it almost looks more like an agency model built in to the te…”
Ohanian: Major League Soccer (MLS) is an overpriced sports league
“But I don't think, there are definitely some leagues that I think are overpriced. I'd say the MLS is one that's overpriced.”
Alexis Ohanian: Early NWSL owners treated franchises as charity
“I started talking to existing owners. And I found this very weird dynamic because all of them Basically had gotten the team because they had a daughter or a granddaughter who liked soccer, and they thought, oh, this will be nice for them. And they really thoug…”
Ohanian used GP 'silver bullet' to invest in Angel City FC
“And there are some companies that look like that, but then there are others, and I'd put those in the categories, where we needed to build a release valve to basically silver bullet, and just say, even though everyone is vehemently against doing this deal, you…”
Ohanian Gave Angel City FC Founders Majority Ownership Without Capital Contribution
“I actually made sure the three founders Natalie, Cara, and Julie actually had a majority of the ownership.”
Ohanian: Women's sports is the most brand-safe platform for advertisers
“Now in the world of sports, those conversations are so much easier because there's nothing more brand safe for these advertisers than sports, and specifically women's sports.”
Ohanian: Live sports is the one entertainment pillar AI won't disrupt
“I am very long in this age of AI on sports, obviously, because I, that's the one pillar of entertainment that is not going to be upended. Like, we will never want to see robots playing football.”
Alexis Ohanian labels Dan Snyder one of the worst sports team owners ever
“And again, one of the worst owners of all time.”
Ohanian: Tech Will Drive a 90/10 Power Law in Sports Franchise Valuation
“I think it will be a power law, but even in the big four in America, I think you'll see a power law where maybe it's ninety-ten even where so much of the value is going to very few of the teams because we know that's what software does.”
Ohanian: 80% of TV and movies will lose attention market share
“I think it is, let's go back to that Pareto, eighty-twenty action. I think 80% of movie, television, that kind of scripted, created, even non-scripted, that sort of entertainment slips.”
Alexis Ohanian: Top creators can build massive businesses around commodity products
“As long as Jimmy's happy, as long as you're making something you truly stand behind, I'm long on it all day. Even if it's a fucking commodity, right? You can break through with something that is solved in terms of making it.”
Ohanian: Beast Industries Is Worth at Least $5 Billion
“For sure. At least that. Today, at least that.”
Ohanian: Resigned from Reddit board in 2020 requesting Black successor
“You know, after the murder of George Floyd and really thinking about sort of the role that I want to play in the world, I realized I needed to step down from the board of Reddit. I did that in June and you know, was very relieved to see that they honored my re…”
Ohanian: Individual investor brands will supersede institutional venture firm brands
“Individuals are starting to supersede the brands of firms in a way that we're seeing across industries, right? Substack. I've got a friend of mine who left her job at fortune, you know, a great publication to start a newsletter and she's already making more mo…”
Ohanian: VC deals split between consensus access plays and contentious nascent bets
“There's the like intelligence test type deals where, you know, it's a repeat founder, really strong, obvious market. Maybe they're just taking a second swing at the thing they had done before. So you know, they're capable. You've worked with them before. Like …”
Ohanian: VC diversity is a capitalism issue, not a social justice one
“I would like to see more people doing this job who don't look like you and me, Harry, because I want to make more money because that's actually how we're going to have better things. Like, and this isn't like a social justice argument. This is a, we have 24 ho…”
Ohanian: Early-stage startups should only write code and talk to users
“Because the only two things they should be doing is either writing code or getting slash talking to users.”
Ohanian: US men's soccer has never won anything on a global stage
“American soccer is defined by women. And for non-American listeners, you have to understand, our men are terrible. All right. They've never won anything on a global stage.”
Ohanian: Not securing board control of Angel City FC was a mistake
“I didn't insist on any kind of board, and then as the board got developed with successive rounds, I was just fine with actually not having control, which was a mistake.”
Angel City FC made hundreds of thousands in merch before launch
“She said we did, I think it was a couple 100,000 dollars in revenue. That first year with fake merch, not fake merch, but like merch devoid of a logo with no team or players ever having played”
Ohanian: Sports lacking viral social media highlights missing long-term value
“If you can't show me a sport where the highlights go viral on social media, the freest market of ideas that has ever existed in the world, You might have some stuff missing, and I don't know what the there is, but there's something missing.”
The other half of the tape: Alexis Ohanian's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 56 times in 22 episodes on 20VC. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 45Ted Blosser 3Garry Tan 3Mark Mullen 2Steve Huffman 1Max Altman 1Gary Liu 1
Statements about Alexis Ohanian, by other people (2)
Reddit Needed Alexis Ohanian's Charisma to Get Into Y Combinator
“You know, Alexis then and now has always been a very, like, high charisma person, an easy conversation, kind of a charming, funny person, and so in the early days of Reddit, even in that story I just told you, those skills were really important to us because I…”
Blosser: Initialized hired Kim-Mai Cutler to coach portfolio enterprise branding
“I know Gary Tan and Alexis Ohanian from our investors at Initialize, they've been very, very good in helping us build our brand. They brought on Kim Mai Cutler onto their team from TechCrunch, and she's been extremely helpful in actually coaching us through ho…”
Every mention by year
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- Logan Bartlett: WTF is Happening at Growth Stage Investing? | 20VC #920 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kirsten Green: The Biggest Challenges Scaling Both Teams and AUM | 20VC #912 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- 20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
- 20VC: Why You Must Have A Customer Acquisition Strategy From Day 1, How To Test and Validate Ideas At Speed & Why You Should Speak To Investors Before Starting Work On Your Idea with Kulveer Taggar, Founder @ CEO @ Zeus Living
- 20VC: Initialized's Garry Tan on The Most Important Thing A Seed Investor Can Do For Founders, How Ownership Requirements Change With Evolution of Funds & Why There Is Not Too Much Capital Chasing Too Few Deals
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: 2 Levers To Fundraising: FOMO & Leverage and How To Use Them, How To Implement "A Sustainable Growth Mindset" & How To Put VCs To Work For You with Leore Avidar @ Lob
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- 20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Why You Should Build Your Investor Team Like A Sports Team & How To Leverage The Abilities Of Your Investors Effectively with Ted Blosser, Founder & CEO @ WorkRamp
- 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- 20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage?
- 20VC: Qualtrics' Ryan Smith on Building A $Bn Company & Raising The Largest Series A Since 2008 From Sequoia & Accel
- 20VC: The Future For 3D Printing? Why European VCs Are More Conservative Than US VCs & How 3D Printing Truly Changes The Manufacturing Process with Peter Weijmarshausen, Co-Founder & CEO @ Shapeways
- 20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Appearances (3)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | | Aug 7, 2024 | 1h 5m |
| 20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Di | Nov 19, 2020 | 23m |
| 20VC: Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on How It All Started With Paul Graham @ YC, The Biggest Sur | Dec 12, 2016 | 18m |