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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.

16statements → 12claims → 6claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.94/5average certainty → 2.5/5average debate potential → 31said about them ↓

4 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 6 not checkable as stated how the 12 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 predictions · 4 assertions · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 12 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 6 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

Prediction Held up
Ohanian: Bored Ape owners will borrow against NFTs and never sell
“It is inevitable and on the order of months and lots of years, if not months for all those Bored Ape owners, To never have to actually sell.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 52:42 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
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.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:56 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens

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 the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Didn’t hold up
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.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:56 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: 'Minimum Viable Community' will become the new standard
“The minimum viable community is going to become the new standard and you're already seeing it in PFP projects.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 27:06 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Held up
Ohanian: Bored Ape owners will borrow against NFTs and never sell
“It is inevitable and on the order of months and lots of years, if not months for all those Bored Ape owners, To never have to actually sell.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 52:42 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: VCs must accept pseudonymous token holders on cap tables
“Not only will VCs have to get comfortable having other folks on the cap table who are, let's say, individual investors, they'll have to get comfortable with, like, a bunch of random strangers on the internet who have just bought into the token. Who are totally…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:00:31 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: Reddit is a proof of concept for Web3
“In many ways, I think Reddit will be looked at as a kind of proof of concept for a lot of the stuff that Web Three is just gonna run away with in the next few years.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:02:44 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ohanian: DAO participation will be commonplace within five years
“I think everyone in five years will participate in a DAO. They won't know it necessarily. I don't think that branding is, is whack. But they won't care. Right. User experience triumphs over everything. So yeah, I think it will be pretty commonplace. Not, maybe…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:16:58 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: People will value online pseudonyms over real names within five years
“In five years, agree with the statement that a famous VC asked me like 10 years ago, what's something that you believe that the rest of the world were? And I told him that people will care more or do care more and will care more about their online identity tha…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:26 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Reddit grew yearly for five years despite zero product investment
“Like, Reddit for five years between, I left in 2010, I came back in early, you know, late 14 as exec chair, had Almost no investment by con and asked in the product. The product didn't improve for half a decade, barely stayed online. Okay. There's no business …”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 27:38 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: An index of global Y Combinator startups will perform phenomenally
“Will YC still be successful for the next 10 years? Yes. I think as they expand the sectors and geographies, YC, I think globally is one of the most no brainer investments you can make in early stage investing. If you just invested in an index fund of all of th…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 38:17 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Opinion
Ohanian: Most VC firms operate devoid of software
“All these VCs, we all talk about investing in startups, disrupting antiquated industries using software. That's what we love investing in. We do that all day long. Yet, most venture capital firms are run devoid of software.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 57:19 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ohanian: The Serial podcast team was dismissive of their Reddit community
“And I remember reaching out to the team there saying, hey, you all should really engage with this community. Like, this, whether you know it or not, is the most valuable part of your podcast. No offense. And to say that they were dismissive was an understateme…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:24:48 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Opinion
Ohanian: Early Y Combinator was dismissed and unsophisticated about Silicon Valley
“The first few years of YC were very janky. It was seen as, I think most people were quite dismissive of it, and frankly, PG and Jessica were not that sophisticated when it came to Silicon Valley VC, because they were based in Boston.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 23:00 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Insight
Ohanian: Profile picture is the atomic unit of online identity
“Your most basic, the atomic, most basic atomic unit of identity online is your profile picture.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 43:41 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Y Combinator originally funded founders with $6,000 each
“He announces Y Combinator and says, hey, I think random college kids when given 6000 dollars per founder, that's how much it was, spending an entire summer just building, like writing code, talking to customers, can one day build billion dollar businesses.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 20:24 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Assertion Supported
Ohanian: Reddit's first revenue came from merchandise sales
“The first revenue Reddit made was merch.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 37:01 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
Disclosure
Ohanian: Alt facilitates tens of millions in trading card loans
“I backed a company called Alt doing this around trading cards and other like physical alternative assets. We're already letting people borrow tens of millions of dollars against their collections of trading cards that are vaulted.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 50:17 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens

The other half of the tape: Alexis Ohanian's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 27 times in 15 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 4 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 11Sahil Bloom 8Sriram Krishnan 4Kevin Rose 2Julien Smith 1Harley Finkelstein 1

Statements about Alexis Ohanian, by other people (4)

Disclosure
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…”
Kevin Rose Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 6:04 Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
Assertion Supported
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…”
Sahil Bloom Jan 11, 2022 ▶ 47:19 Forecasting the Future of Tech with Scott Belsky | Where It Happens
Insight
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…”
Julien Smith Jun 30, 2022 ▶ 57:41 How To Create Your Own Luck With Julien Smith
Assertion Supported
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.”
Greg Isenberg May 5, 2022 ▶ 37:14 Why You Should Start a Business For Older Adults

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2022 16 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens Dec 23, 2021 47m
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