alexis ohanian
currently working on:
breadpig: Started an uncorporation that designs and sells interesting, geeky things. The mascot is a pig with bread wings.
*FeedbackFail: A collection of the most entertaining feedback mail submitted to any website brave enough to solicit it. Over the last three years, I've seen a great range of human emotion and intelligence in these emails. I know I'm not alone. We'd love your submissions.
LOLmagnetz: Magnetic LOLspeak for your fridge. Magnetic poetry -- for geeks. LOLmagnetz owners submit photos of their magnetic genius.
reddit: Co-founded a news website where readers, not editors, determine what goes on the front page. I started doodling the alien mascot back in April 2005. Still do.
YourWeek: A television news program (also available online) powered by reddit. It currently has no mascot.
*new project -- with chocolate center
online, i often go by
kn0thing, pronounced like "nothing"
i never go by "alex"
got piece of paper from
uva in may '05 - history & commerce
started
reddit a month later with steve [
spez] huffman. it's a news website where readers choose the news, not editors. it also has a mascot from the future.
kept a blog about it, too (about startup life, not the alien)
now i'm doing doodling from sf with steve, dr. chris
[
keysersosa] slowe, jeremy [
jedberg] edberg, and david [
ketralnis]
we owe a lot of our success to
y combinator. they even let us
close out
startup school stanford 07.
my presentation will be even less
informative without the narration
nevertheless, i've been speaking at quite a few conferences since then. if you'd like to hear me talk about my 16months in a dot.com startup (with an array of non sequitor slides behind me)
email me -- i'll try not to bore
otherwise, feel free to email if you have a random question or just want to harass me about today's reddit logo
i will try my best to respond quickly