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Alexis Ohanian is an American entrepreneur. He co-founded Reddit with Steve Huffman.

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23 Jun, 2015

10th birthday

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The site celebrates its 10th birthday in a blog post that contains statistics about the site’s growth over the years.

Wow. Here we are, ten years later.

  • 190,227,552 posts
  • 1,715,454,785 comments
  • 16,063,942,290 upvotes
  • 36,136,190 user accounts

Together we’ve donated over $1.8 million to Extra Life, Haiti, teachers, and Nepal. We donated another $827,659.49—10% of our 2014 ad revenue—to the top 10 charities of your choice. You’ve also donated a huge amount that we can’t begin to track through individual subreddit campaigns and spontaneous events like this.

You guys really are amazing. Thank you for making the last 10 years of Reddit amazing too. Here’s to the next 10 years.

2 Jul, 2015

Will ‘triage’ AMA requests

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Ohanian makes an announcement in regards to Taylor’s removal.

We don’t talk about specific employees, but I do want you to know that I’m here to triage AMA requests in the interim. All AMA inquiries go to AMA@reddit.com where we have a team in place…I posted this on [a mod sub] but I’m reposting here:

We get that losing Victoria has a significant impact on the way you manage your community. I’d really like to understand how we can help solve these problems, because I know r/IAMA thrived before her and will thrive after…We’re prepared to help coordinate and schedule AMAs. I’ve got the inbound coming through my inbox right now and many of the people who come on to do AMAs are excited to do them without assistance (most recently, the noteworthy Channing Tatum AMA).

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