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Alexis Ohanian

Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six · 1 appearance 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.

11statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4.09/5average certainty → 1.36/5average debate potential → 6said about them ↓

4 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 3 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.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Condé Nast bought Reddit for between $10M and $20M
“That is accurate.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 30:34 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alexis Ohanian on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alexis Ohanian said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

What-if
Ohanian: SOPA and PIPA would have effectively broken the internet
“Well-intentioned people, I think most of whom are well-intentioned in D.C., writing bills for technology they don't really understand without people around them who are themselves technologists often lead to things like SOPA and PIPA, and those were two bills …”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 35:33 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Opinion
Ohanian: Paul Graham is terrible at naming companies
“PG is terrible at naming companies, but when he nailed it with that phrase, it was special.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 16:34 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Condé Nast bought Reddit for between $10M and $20M
“That is accurate.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 30:34 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Opinion
Ohanian: Regrets early Reddit sale financially, but the money was life-changing
“So I regret from a business standpoint, yes, we sold it early, but I have no regret whatsoever as a decision because I got to make that phone call.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 31:21 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: Graham funded founders on condition they abandon their original idea
“We like you to, and if you change your idea, we'll invest.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 13:53 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Reddit founders received $12,000 from Paul Graham for three months
“And this was a chance to basically get 12,000 dollars from an investor we really trusted to just try something for three months.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 15:51 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Reddit launched after only three weeks of development
“We actually only worked on it for about three weeks before we launched it.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 17:17 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reddit couldn't afford snoo.com because $4,000 was one-third of its funding
“Unfortunately, snoo.com cost 4000 dollars, which we didn't have. It was a third of our fund, so couldn't afford it.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 18:20 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: 300 million people visit Reddit each month
“Consider three hundred million people will visit Reddit this month. That's almost as big as the population in the United States.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 43:55 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Disclosure
Ohanian: Walked out of the LSAT for a Waffle House epiphany
“And then on a Saturday morning, walked out of an LSAT to go eat waffles. And I went to a waffle house. It's a great place for epiphanies and waffles. And I had both there that morning and realized if I wanted these waffles more than the LSAT, I probably should…”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 6:49 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: Serena Williams had never heard of Reddit when they first met
“She had no idea what Reddit was.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 47:54 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

The other half of the tape: Alexis Ohanian's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 3 episodes on How I Built This. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Guy Raz 3

Statements about Alexis Ohanian, by other people (3)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 20:29 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Assertion Supported
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 …”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 24:10 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Disclosure
Huffman: Reddit co-founders attended therapy together in 2015 to reconcile
“And we actually saw my therapist saw him together.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 39:29 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 14m
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