Alexis Ohanian
Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six. On 5 shows, 8 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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.
5shows
8appearances
168statements
33resolved
25supported
2contradicted
76%fully supported
139said about them ↓ Everything Alexis Ohanian said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ohanian: 90% of gamers will only play games that pay them
“In five years, no one, 90% of people will not play a game unless they are being properly valued for that time.”
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: Google is terrible at product innovation and not a threat
“Even if, you know, the Googles of the world launch some janky try on experience, like we know those companies are just terrible at innovating product and aren't really a threat.”
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.”
Ohanian: Next generation of social media will be verifiably human
“And so I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge. That's verifiably human.”
Ohanian: TikTok Was a Problematic CCP Vehicle Before U.S. Ownership
“I've been publicly talking about how problematic TikTok was for years and years and years as a vehicle of the CCP. So I'm happy it's an American possession now.”
Ohanian: Future entertainment is AI-generated; live sports are uniquely resilient
“The future of Hollywood, the entertainment industry, the music industry is going to be largely AI generated or assisted. The appointment television, aside from live, you know, breaking tech and business news sport is like guaranteed. And the celebrity of being…”
Ohanian: People will increasingly spin up entire apps as content
“Maybe that's the other secular shift we're seeing is that people are going to be spinning up entire apps as content that will obviously need a place to get to, and links.”
Ohanian: Frank McCourt's TikTok bid aims to migrate users on-chain
“Frank McCourt's the big dog here. He called me up and was like, Hey, I'd love to get you involved. And he already had his instincts were around building something on chain, you know, using this and the massive user base of tick tock to, you know, basically ove…”
Ohanian: Taste will become 100x more valuable as AI commoditizes intelligence
“Taste in this era is going to be a hundred times more valuable as intelligence, thank God, is getting democratized than a commodity, and so it's an amazing time to have great taste, and this is, the timing could not be better for what you're doing.”
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's board in 2020 over hosted hate communities
“I left Reddit pretty publicly in protest back in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd, because it did not align with my views that the company would take such a stance in support of communities of color and black communities in particular, and also still have thou…”
The other half of the tape: Alexis Ohanian's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 129 times in 45 episodes across the shows. 10 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 45Katelin Holloway 34Greg Isenberg 11Sahil Bloom 8Ted Seides 4Sriram Krishnan 4Ted Blosser 3Guy Raz 3
Statements about Alexis Ohanian, by other people (10)
Kevin Rose: Rebooted Digg Is a Reddit Competitor Run by CEO Justin
“We have Justin as a CEO who runs kind of like the day to day and builds out, you know, the Reddit competitor version of dig. And then we have, you know, me that I'm kind of more in the labs area where I'm pushing on the edges of ideas and saying, what might we…”
Bloom: Alexis Ohanian’s VC firm uses internal software Cerebro to gamify value-add
“Alexis Ohanian has at seven, seven, six, they have this internal proprietary software they built out called Cerebro. I think it's called like Star Trek reference that manages like all of their internal stuff. And one of the portals is this like value add, like…”
Huffman: Reddit's first 100 accounts were fake profiles created by the founders
“And that's why the first hundred or so Reddit users were either characters from World of Warcraft or pieces of furniture in our living room.”
776 Invites All Employees to Pitches and Collects Anonymous Ratings
“Everyone at the firm is invited to any pitch we take. In the pitch process, because we have Cerebro, we have software, every individual that attends the pitch puts their notes into the system, and because Alexis is the Reddit guy, it's anonymous.”
Julien Smith: Founders only get about five shots to build something major
“One of the things you realize when you start a company Is you kind of only have a shot, a couple of shots, if it's going to work well. And if you, it is going to work well, like you've had, for example, Alexis O'Hanian on this show, it's like, you don't have l…”
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…”
Isenberg: Alexis Ohanian has invested in older-adult startups for two years
“Alexis Ohanian, who we've had on the pod always sees the future, but he's been investing the last two or so years in a bunch of Startups for older adults.”
Early Reddit required all front-page links to be under 24 hours old
“Alexis and I were submitting all the content, and we had a rule back then that all of the content on the front page had to be less than 24 hours old. And the front page was 25 links long. So if there were fewer than 25 links submitted that day, there would be …”
Huffman: Reddit co-founders attended therapy together in 2015 to reconcile
“And we actually saw my therapist saw him together.”
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
tap a year for its mentions
20VC 56
Capital Allocators 41
the Startup Ideas Podcast 27
How I Built This 3
TBPN 2
2026 39 mentions in 2 episodes 20 per episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- 20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- Joshua Steinman talks cybersecurity and the vulnerabilities of a digital world.
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 1 episode
2022 27 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan
- 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?!
- Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- Why You Should Start a Business For Older Adults
- Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens
- Memes Rule The World with Dogecoin Creator Billy Markus | Where It Happens
- 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
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 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
- State of the Union: DAOing the X Games | Where It Happens
- 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 20 mentions in 5 episodes 4 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
- Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
- 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 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 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
- Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones
- 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 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alexis's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 3 | 94 | 90% 9/10 | full record on 20VC → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 2 | 27 | 100% 2/2 | full record on TBPN → |
| CAPITAL ALLOCATORSLEDGER | Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 1 | 20 | 55% 6/11 | full record on Capital Allocators → |
| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 1 | 16 | 67% 4/6 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 1 | 11 | 100% 4/4 | full record on How I Built This → |