Alexis Ohanian

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

know here was someone who i mean i had like a great relationship with my parents but like definitely a mama's boy and i was an only child what can i say i was pretty cool but no she was she was amazing and and the first thing i did when i saw her so i flew down to baltimore First thing I did when I saw her was asking her, how are you? How's everything going? How are you feeling?

know here was someone who i mean i had like a great relationship with my parents but like definitely a mama's boy and i was an only child what can i say i was pretty cool but no she was she was amazing and and the first thing i did when i saw her so i flew down to baltimore First thing I did when I saw her was asking her, how are you? How's everything going? How are you feeling?

And her first response, first words out of her mouth were, I am sorry. And I was like, what do you mean? You don't mean, I'm sorry. And she's like, well, I know you're starting this company. You're supposed to be a CEO right now. You got to focus on Reddit. Don't focus on me. And I know how much of a distraction this is going to be for you.

And her first response, first words out of her mouth were, I am sorry. And I was like, what do you mean? You don't mean, I'm sorry. And she's like, well, I know you're starting this company. You're supposed to be a CEO right now. You got to focus on Reddit. Don't focus on me. And I know how much of a distraction this is going to be for you.

And you hear something like that from someone who you love so much, who's already given you so much, man. And- And I thought, I was like, I'm the last person. You should not be apologizing to me right now. Focus on yourself, please. I'm going to be fine. You owe me nothing. You've already given me everything. And that's emblematic of who she was. What it did was it gave me a confidence.

And you hear something like that from someone who you love so much, who's already given you so much, man. And- And I thought, I was like, I'm the last person. You should not be apologizing to me right now. Focus on yourself, please. I'm going to be fine. You owe me nothing. You've already given me everything. And that's emblematic of who she was. What it did was it gave me a confidence.

I knew there was no way Reddit would fail. No way. No chance I was going to let it. No way it could possibly not succeed. Because she blessed it with that. She really, even in those situations, still was looking out for her little boy above herself. And, you know, she fought for another three, four years. She got to see me sell Reddit. It had a lot, not going to lie, right?

I knew there was no way Reddit would fail. No way. No chance I was going to let it. No way it could possibly not succeed. Because she blessed it with that. She really, even in those situations, still was looking out for her little boy above herself. And, you know, she fought for another three, four years. She got to see me sell Reddit. It had a lot, not going to lie, right?