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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Reddit comes up
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 1:51 Ted Seides We cover her upbringing, work alongside Steve Jobs at Pixar, and turnaround of Reddit with Alexis.
- ▶ 16:31 Katelin Holloway Moving from Clown becomes that next beat that was impactful for me was late 20 15 when I joined Reddit.
- ▶ 17:03 Ted Seides I'd love to hear maybe in that experience at Reddit about those systems to repair, in this case, build and then scale a business. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:55 Katelin Holloway When I knew my cup was full at Reddit, I loved everything about that job. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 Katelin Holloway Becoming a partner at YC, starting Reddit, selling Reddit, coming back to Reddit, turning around Reddit, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Katelin Holloway Him hiring me at Reddit to then eventually supporting my harebrained thesis of giving an HR lady a checkbook.
- ▶ 32:55 Katelin Holloway 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.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 44:10 Josh Wolfe If I wanted to raise money and train the next large language model, I could take the repository of the internet, everything on Reddit, everything on X, and be able to train the model.
Jay Ripley – Emerging Manager Selection at GEM (EP.470)
- ▶ 52:03 Jay Ripley We're living through another era now where meme stocks are going to the moon, and so the more short of the stock, the more it's being put up on Reddit and Robin Hood and places like that.
Ricky Sandler - Evolution of Long-Short Equity Investing (EP.414)
- ▶ 42:49 Ricky Sandler Pain points that got me to take a step back, and I think in this understanding investor perception, all of a sudden, we had to understand a retail investor, and we had to understand, in some ways, coordinated bullying, something that for… 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 4:40 Ted Seides Alexis was the co-founder of Reddit, one of the most popular online forums in the world, which he sold 18 months after its 2005 launch for just ten million dollars 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:06 Alexis Ohanian And that's where I decided I was going to engineer something to do after graduation, and that ultimately led to Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 Ted Seides So what was that initial origin story of Reddit?
- ▶ 14:48 Alexis Ohanian I found this company, Reddit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:49 Alexis Ohanian I had just a few months into founding Reddit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:22 Ted Seides So how did you turn from building up Reddit, selling it, spending some time at Connie Nast to investing? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 Ted Seides So when you step back into Reddit a number of years later, what was the platform at that time? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:53 Alexis Ohanian Our team president at the LA golf club, Neil Hubman was our head of sales there at Reddit during that entire time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:10 Ted Seides Once you get that internal flywheel going the right way with the right people on a platform like Reddit, you also have the challenges of the external environment. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:10 Alexis Ohanian I saw firsthand the power of designing community software, read it, and I saw the opportunity in early stage venture. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:14 Alexis Ohanian We are generalists, and so I think I've benefited through my entire investing career, and probably, frankly, in building Reddit, from being pretty
- ▶ 54:31 Alexis Ohanian Obviously, inspired a lot by Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:48 Alexis Ohanian I'll say Caitlin Holloway, who I've worked with now almost a decade since the Reddit turnaround now is seven, seven, six, and this is gonna sound like a shameless plug, but I made a donation to Robin Hood Foundation here in New York, and…
Ron Biscardi – Inside iConnections Global Alts (EP.367)
- ▶ 20:05 Ron Biscardi We heard news this week that Reddit will be going public probably in the month of March.
Brent Montgomery – The Disney Flywheel at Wheelhouse (Capital Allocators, EP.265)
- ▶ 46:50 Brent Montgomery For Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams, Alexis founder of Reddit, one of our investing partners, and Serena, who needs no introduction,
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 37:18 Chris Dixon If you think about fan communities on the internet, websites like Wattpad with fan fiction, or you go on Reddit and you read Star Wars communities or Harry Potter communities, people are very, very passionate about these
Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- ▶ 16:48 Olaf Carlson-Wee It was just me and a bunch of people I hired off of Reddit
- ▶ 19:24 Olaf Carlson-Wee We were launching like a tip button that you could embed and tip people on Reddit.
Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- ▶ 55:47 Ben Forman You can ask people in a Reddit forum or on Discord or talk to core developers, but because there's no person calling the shots,
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 7:54 Stephen McKeon They had become known as a peer-to-peer investor in the context of web two, firms like Lyft and TaskRabbit and Quora and Reddit, things that were facilitating peer-to-peer interaction.
- ▶ 21:18 Stephen McKeon An analogy would be an LLC that lives in the cloud, or some people would say a subreddit with a bank account.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 26:09 Fabrice Grinda Well, the twenty-twenty-one, it's a lot easier than ever before, because you can go to YouTube, you can go to Reddit, and you can go to Substack, and there's, like, infinite amount of variation in anything.
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 53:58 Barry Sternlicht So the short squeezers, the Reddit accounts, I mean, it's crazy what's going on.
Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- ▶ 37:28 Ryan Batchelor So prior to the excitement with the Reddit army, my children have been ribbing me ever since. 2 times in the scene