Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit
https://fortune.com/2025/08/27/reddit-cofounder-multimillionaire-alexis-ohanian-ditched-law-school-for-waffle-house-became-entrepreneur/
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nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 344d
Founders: Steve Huffman Aaron Swartz Alexis Ohanian
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 344d
No offense, but what career did he invent exactly? Not like he made solar wind farming a thing. He made a website. Like countless others. Now, he made a unique website, but it's the same career as countless others.
GEEXiES@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
Not even unique I'd argue. He was lucky Digg killed itself at the right moment.
jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 344d
I was building a Reddit clone a long time ago and this man has followed my Github profile for the last 10 years. Of course that was a different era. That's my anecdote though, I think underneath all of these silicon bros is a spoiled nerdy interior that sold out. Kind of sad.