#274: Alexis Ohanian on Building and Investing in the Modern Digital World

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Alexis Ohanian is the Co-founder of Initialized Capital, a half-billion dollar early stage venture capital firm. He is also the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Reddit, one of the most popular websites in the world. In this conversation, Anthony and Alexis discuss the founding story of Reddit, what Alexis learned as a Partner at YCombinator, whether he has ever beat Serena at anything athletic, what industries should benefit from behavior shifts due to the virus, and what org structure and internal tools allow Initialized to operate at such a high level. =============================== BlockFi allows you to keep your crypto, put it up as collateral, and receive a USD loan funded directly to your bank account. They do loans ranging from $2,000 to $10,000,000, and they're perfect for helping you reach your financial goals of all sizes. Visit BlockFi.com/Pomp to learn more about putting your crypto to work without having to sell it. =============================== Blockset by BRD is your hosted blockchain infrastructure. Blockset enables enterprises and developers around the globe to deliver high-quality blockchain-based applications in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost. Using the services provided by Blockset, businesses can build professional custody solutions, accurate and near real-time portfolio management solutions, auditing platforms, commercial block explorers, and much more: blockset.com ===============================

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.3	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder of
0:12.9	initialized capital, a half billion dollar early stage venture capital firm. He is also the co-founder
0:18.7	and executive chairman of Reddit, one of the most popular websites
0:22.1	in the world. In this conversation, we discussed the founding story of Reddit, what Alexis learned
0:27.9	as a partner at Y Combinator, whether he has ever beat his wife Serena at anything athletic,
0:33.9	what industries should benefit from behavior shifts due to the virus, and what organizational
0:38.7	structure and internal tools allow initialize to operate at such a high level.
0:43.7	I really enjoyed this conversation with Alexis, and I hope you do as well.
0:47.7	Before we get into the episode, though, I want to talk about our two sponsors.
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1:44.6	If you're building in the blockchain space, you got to know them.
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