Alexis Ohanian - Founder, Seven Seven Six Ep #52

<p>Raj (00:10):</p><p>(silence). Ooh, beautiful.</p><p>Alexis (00:11):</p><p>This is fun. Hey everybody.</p><p>Raj (00:13):</p><p>It's electric.</p><p>Alexis (00:13):</p><p>All right. All right. Nice to see you all too. Oh, there we go. Okay. This is big. This is just the building of a new internet. Probably nothing.</p><p>Raj (00:26):</p><p>Probably nothing. It's such an honor, Alexis, really, to be on stage with you. It's like a dream. I've been a power user of Reddit, and I saw the way that you created that and the intention that you brought into it, and the intention you've brought into how we build technology that connects people together, and the conviction you have about how you want it to connect them for good. Not pull them apart but pull them together. Three things that connect them, their interests, their common grounds, and give them the tools to do that.</p><p>Alexis (00:59):</p><p>Thank you, man.</p><p>Raj (00:59):</p><p>Yeah, it's been really awesome.</p><p>Alexis (01:00):</p><p>I feel grateful. I was a dumb college kid in 2005, starting Reddit. The inspiration were like message boards. And I ran a PHPBB forum. Shout out PHPBB. I think those bulletin boards are still cranking somewhere in parts of the internet, but it was a hope for a more connected internet. But I really had no idea what would come from it. I'm obviously grateful. Hopefully a few of you all are Redditors. Any? Couple, one or two? Thank you. Thank you for all of your upvotes and thank you for also admitting you're the least productive people here. So thank you for your candor. I got so excited as crypto started taking off because Reddit is where I dove in. R/Bitcoin is the community that inspired me to first invest in Coinbase back in 2012. R/Ethereum was the community that got me really excited about what could actually be done with programmable money and this concept of building an internet that was decentralized and truly in the hands of all the people creating content. And now what I am seeing here, especially within the Solana