Biography
Alexis Ohanian (Reddit username 'kn0thing') co-founded Reddit in 2005 with Steve Huffman after the pair were accepted into Y Combinator's first batch. He designed Reddit's alien mascot, Snoo, as a doodle while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. After Reddit's 2006 sale to Condé Nast, he pursued other ventures including Hipmunk and the venture firm Initialized Capital, then returned full-time alongside Huffman in July 2015 before stepping back from day-to-day work in 2018. On June 5, 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, he resigned from Reddit's board and publicly urged the company to fill his seat with a Black candidate, later founding the venture firm Seven Seven Six.