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Alexis Ohanian. 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's logo consists of a time-traveling alien named Snoo and the company name stylized as "reddit". The alien has an oval head, pom-pom ears, and an antenna. [166] Its colors are black, white, and orange-red. [166] The mascot was created in 2005 while company co-founder Alexis Ohanian was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. [167]
Within a year (by January 2012), Reddit again doubled in pageviews and reached 2 billion pageviews per month. [ 5] 2012–2014. Reddit achieves 37 billion pageviews in 2012, 56 billion pageviews in 2013, and 71.25 billion pageviews in 2014. Yishan Wong serves as Reddit's CEO from March 2012 to November 2014.
Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez ( / spɛz / ), 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] He also co-founded the airfare search engine website Hipmunk, which shut down ...
Ellen Kangru Pao (born 1970) is an American investor and former interim CEO of social media company Reddit. [1] [2] [3]Pao first became known in 2012 for filing a failed gender discrimination suit against her employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, and has continued to express vocal criticism of the hiring and promotion practices in Silicon Valley.
In October 2006, based largely on Reddit's success, Not a Bug was acquired by Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired magazine. [26] [40] Swartz moved with his company to San Francisco to continue to work on Reddit for Wired. [26] He found corporate office life uncongenial and ultimately was asked to resign from the company. [41]
Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in ...
Walmart Inc. / 36.36556°N 94.21750°W / 36.36556; -94.21750. Walmart Inc. ( / ˈwɔːlmɑːrt / ⓘ; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States and 23 other countries.