Alexis Ohanian

I mean, she could have just got me a normal birthday gift. But I'm still grateful for it.

I mean, she could have just got me a normal birthday gift. But I'm still grateful for it.

She's not. She got to see me graduate from college, which was awesome. She was there in Charlottesville for that. And yeah, no, it's wild. I've never... I don't know. I think...

She's not. She got to see me graduate from college, which was awesome. She was there in Charlottesville for that. And yeah, no, it's wild. I've never... I don't know. I think...

You know, one of the big things I did a few years back was I joined the Board of Robin Hood, the nonprofit in New York, and I made a big grant to child care there in the city, in part because it was there in Brooklyn when my mother and father were working at the Ashland Place apartments there in Fort Greene. Aunt Vera would pinch hit and just watch me and stuff.

You know, one of the big things I did a few years back was I joined the Board of Robin Hood, the nonprofit in New York, and I made a big grant to child care there in the city, in part because it was there in Brooklyn when my mother and father were working at the Ashland Place apartments there in Fort Greene. Aunt Vera would pinch hit and just watch me and stuff.

So my one of my parents were at work and all that as a little kid. And so child care. makes a huge difference. And, and we were lucky enough to have a family member just across, almost across the hallway and, you know, another building. And, uh, and so I wanted to pay it forward and that was in honor of her. That was a tribute to her.

So my one of my parents were at work and all that as a little kid. And so child care. makes a huge difference. And, and we were lucky enough to have a family member just across, almost across the hallway and, you know, another building. And, uh, and so I wanted to pay it forward and that was in honor of her. That was a tribute to her.

But, uh, like I said, I'll be paying that back, uh, for the rest of my life for sure.

But, uh, like I said, I'll be paying that back, uh, for the rest of my life for sure.

i took my pops back too and we were walking around the four greens changed a lot since the 80s uh but the the block is still there and uh and it was great taking my dad through there just hearing stories from him and uh yeah it's wild then you become a parent and you start imagining you see this little person and you're reminded that you were that little person once to your parent and it makes your relationship to them feel very different it's it was a trip but it was great to be able to come back and i'll like i said i'm i'm paying off those debts the rest of my life

i took my pops back too and we were walking around the four greens changed a lot since the 80s uh but the the block is still there and uh and it was great taking my dad through there just hearing stories from him and uh yeah it's wild then you become a parent and you start imagining you see this little person and you're reminded that you were that little person once to your parent and it makes your relationship to them feel very different it's it was a trip but it was great to be able to come back and i'll like i said i'm i'm paying off those debts the rest of my life

Yeah, well, I dealt with it very poorly. But so...

Yeah, well, I dealt with it very poorly. But so...

for the first 20 years of my life like i said i mean awesome like no no real uh strife i was ready to take over the world like i felt so confident in our ability to build this business uh so excited and gosh like two months in to starting reddit fresh out of school my then girlfriend who was a year younger than me she was studying abroad she had a pretty serious accident big fall.

for the first 20 years of my life like i said i mean awesome like no no real uh strife i was ready to take over the world like i felt so confident in our ability to build this business uh so excited and gosh like two months in to starting reddit fresh out of school my then girlfriend who was a year younger than me she was studying abroad she had a pretty serious accident big fall.

She was in a coma. She survived. She made a nearly full recovery actually. But the first month, two months of Y Combinator was this. And you get that phone call and you're like, and again, I was very lucky. I never had a phone call like that before in my life. And you get that phone call and it guts you and you're on the first plane to Germany and you're trying to

She was in a coma. She survived. She made a nearly full recovery actually. But the first month, two months of Y Combinator was this. And you get that phone call and you're like, and again, I was very lucky. I never had a phone call like that before in my life. And you get that phone call and it guts you and you're on the first plane to Germany and you're trying to

just make sense of the world right this person you love this person you care about and another month or two later and then i get the call that my mom has had a seizure and she's been diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer a glioblastoma multiforma stage four and there's words you don't want to hear and you know the that that was really the crippling blow where

just make sense of the world right this person you love this person you care about and another month or two later and then i get the call that my mom has had a seizure and she's been diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer a glioblastoma multiforma stage four and there's words you don't want to hear and you know the that that was really the crippling blow where