I don’t know much about reddit corporate structure, or how corporate works in full honesty. My understanding is that there are 2 alive founders, and spez is the CEO. Where is Alexis in all of this? Or does he not have a say?
The dude took the money and also married money (having married tennis player Serena Williams). Aside for rarely posting comments, I don’t think he has anything to do with Reddit anymore.
Alexis stepped back from leading the company in 2018, and down from Reddit’s board in 2020.
Someone who’s more informed than me, please chime in.
As I understand it Alexis stepped away from the board(?) of reddit in 2020. Supposedly in protest after George Floyd was murdered. I believe he’s just your standard “Hey look, I’m woke too!” venture capitalist nowadays. Likely still heavily invested in reddit, seeing as I don’t think he’s spoken out on the controversy lately.
He caught a lot of heat for firing Victoria back in 2015 iirc.
Most of what I saw about him was from his own website so take it all with a huge grain of salt.
https://alexisohanian.com/news/2020/6/5/what-did-you-do
Although as much as I hate to give props to a rich guy, he does put on a much better Real Human act than spez, Musk, or Zuc.
