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Alexis Kerry Ohanian (Armenian: Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) [1] is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and former [2] executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz.
Reddit (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ t / ⓘ) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members.
Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez (/ s p ɛ z /), is an American web developer and entrepreneur.He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks in the top 20 websites in the world. [4]
It owns publishing-related companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (30% ownership), and Warner Bros. Discovery (8% ownership).
For eight days in 2014, Altman was the CEO of Reddit, a social media company, after CEO Yishan Wong resigned. [66] [67] He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015. [68] He remained on its board until 2022. [69] Altman invested in multiple rounds of funding Reddit, in 2014, 2015, and 2021.
Although both projects initially struggled, Reddit made large gains in popularity in 2005–2006. In October 2006, based largely on Reddit's success, Not a Bug was acquired by Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired magazine. [27] [41] Swartz moved with his company to San Francisco to continue to work on Reddit for Wired. [27]
A bug tester leaked the prototype to Reddit, where it gained adoption. [6] By March 2014, the company had 900,000 organic users. [7] Honey raised a $26 million Series C round, led by Anthos Capital in March 2017. [8] By January 2018, Honey had raised a total of $40.8 million in venture backing. [9]
In 2013, while working at Reddit, Wardle made a prototype of word game Wordle, a play on his last name. [3] Wardle's initial name for the game was Mr. Bugs' Wordy Nugz. [11] In January 2021, he returned to his 2013 prototype to create a word game for his partner, Palak Shah.