Alexis Ohanian on Reddit's potential IPO & more | E1893
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Todays show:
Jason talks with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian about their pending IPO (2:48), advice he tells young people starting out at his firm (13:51), then Ron Biscardi discusses the future of the iConnections conference (47:01), and more!
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at the longevity of Reddit, what are the takeaways for you as the co-founder? |
| 0:04.8 | The power of community was able to sustain Reddit after the sale to Conanass. |
| 0:11.2 | In those four or five years when it was just a part of |
| 0:13.4 | Conde, they didn't know what to do with it. It kind of just languished, but the |
| 0:18.2 | community kept it alive. The community kept growing and engaging and there aren't many products that should get away with basically doing nothing for five years and still succeed year after year after year and |
| 0:30.0 | Reddit managed to and I think it's a testament to the community and those users. |
| 0:32.8 | And we got just enough things right early that it endured. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, it's like you set this foundation somehow that was so stable that even a giant media |
| 0:41.6 | corporation could knock it over. |
| 0:44.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:48.0 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:52.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock-2 report fast. |
| 0:55.0 | Twist listeners can get 1,000 dollars off for a limited time |
| 1:00.0 | at vanta.com slash Twist. |
| 1:03.0 | Net Suite, once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge. |
| 1:08.0 | Things you used to do in a day, take a week. |
| 1:11.0 | You deserve a customized solution, that's NetSuite. Learn more when you download |
| 1:15.8 | NetSuite's popular KPI checklist absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash Twist. |
| 1:22.8 | And, Scalable Path. |
| 1:25.0 | Want to speed up your product development |
| 1:26.7 | without breaking the bank? |
| 1:27.9 | Since 2010, Scalable Path |
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