My recent talk @ MIT Startup Bootcamp
via youtube.com
You can find the slides here. Wow, I definitely needed another cup of coffee that morning :) Thanks for having me, MIT!
I'm a startup guy in Brooklyn who wants to make the world suck less; I create things, startups, communities, and cute logos. This is a collection of things I upvote.
Alexis Ohanian
Guten Tag!Email me here.
Check out my book,
Without Your Permission.
TechCrunch calls me "one of the more passionate and audacious young entrepreneurs in tech." Hide your kids -- especially now that I'm writing a book, CNN reports. It looks like it'll be called Without Your Permission.
After graduating from UVA in 2005, I started reddit.com with Steve Huffman. Founded Breadpig, which creates geeky things, sells them, and gives away all the profits -- $190,000 so far. Publisher of xkcd: volume 0. Bottler of AwesomeSauce. Maker of LOLMagnetz. Said WTFCNN?! one too many times. Bassist in a Rock Band™. Ambassador to the East for Y Combinator. Angel investor at Das Kapital Capital, LLC. Launched hipmunk -- ran marketing, PR & logo-doodling -- now an advisor & evangelist.
Once rendered in CGI on NMA.TV. Contributor with regular appearances on Bloomberg TV as "hoodie-clad tech entrepreneur." Gave a TED talk at 26 about a whale named Mr. Splashy Pants.
And my favorite: Stephen Colbert once sent me this photo posing with a mug I made him (and even gave me a shoutout in a letter to reddit).
If you've ever told someone about any of my projects, I owe you a beer. (Thanks!)
And if you're interested in having me speak -- I do it to fund my hummus addiction -- please email my agent.
Upcoming Talks
- Aviary Photo Hack Day 2
New York, NY » Feb 25, 2012 - Book me for a talk. Click here.
At your university, corporation, or Bar Mitzvah.
Most popular entries
- Stephen Colbert sent me this picture. I think he likes his reddit mug.
- Keep Calm and Carry On - What you didn't know about the reddit story
- How reddit became reddit - the biggest smallest community online
- Ben Huh can has reddit? I respond entirely in LOLcat photos
- Our Y Combinator Summer 05 Application
Something to make the world suck less
Past Talks
- DLD (Digital-Life-Design)
Munich, Germany » Jan 23, 2012 - Canadian University Software Engineering Conf
Montreal, QC » Jan 19-21, 2012 - Making Something People Love - class at GA
New York, NY » Nov 28, 2011 - Oredev.org
Malmö, Sweden » Nov 9, 2011 - Business of Software 2011
Boston, MA » Oct 26, 2011 - NY ComicCon
New York, NY » Oct 15, 2011 - Chicago Ideas Week
Chicago, IL » Oct 15, 2011 - TEDx Midwest
Chicago, IL » Oct 14, 2011 - Ignite NYC
New York, NY » Oct 10, 2011 - Palantir: Private Talk
McLean, VA » Sep 13, 2011 - Social Dev Camp
Chicago, IL » Aug 28, 2011 - Startup Weekend
New York, NY » Aug 12, 2011 - Social Media for Non-profits
New York, NY » Aug 4, 2011 - Cheezburger Field Day
Seattle, WA » Jul 15, 2011 - NexGen IT Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
Cairo, Egypt » Jun 27, 2011 - Making Something People Love - class at GA
New York, NY » Jun 22, 2011 - Startup Mixology
Washington, D.C. » Jun 16, 2011 - MC for Hacking Education
New York, NY » Jun 18, 2011 - Eye for Travel: Online Marketing Strategies
Miami, FL » Jun 7, 2011 - Startup 2011
New York, NY » May 10, 2011 - General Assembly Demo Night (host)
New York, NY » May 9, 2011 - Canadian Undergraduate Tech Conf
Toronto, ON » May 7, 2011 - FFP Spring Event
New York, NY » Apr 28, 2011 - PGW Fall 2011 Conference
Berkeley, CA » Apr 27, 2011 - University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA » Apr 19, 2011 - Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA » Apr 11, 2011 - National Conference for Media Reform
Boston, MA » Apr 10, 2011 - UCLA
Los Angeles, CA » Apr 4, 2011 - Clinton Global Initiative
San Diego, CA » Apr 2, 2011 - New York-New England Connections in Tech
Boston, MA » Mar 31, 2011 - NYU Stern: Annual Entrepreneurs' Summit
New York, NY » Mar 25, 2011 - BBDO Digital Lab
New York, NY » Mar 23, 2011 - SXSW Interactive
Austin, TX » Mar 12, 2011 - CVE 2.0 Conference
Washington, DC » Mar 9, 2011 - UNIS-UN: The Web, Wiring our World
New York, NY » Mar 4, 2011 - Social Media Strategies for Travel 2011
San Francisco, CA » Mar 2-3, 2011 - Responsys Interact 2011
San Francisco, CA » Feb 15-18, 2011 - Social Media Week 2011
Rome, Italy » Feb 7-11, 2011 - 2011 UVA in NY Media Panel
New York, NY » Jan 11, 2011 - Puerto Rico Venture Forum
Isla Verde, PR » Dec 7, 2010 - Respect the Internet
New York, NY » Dec 3, 2010 - Phi Theta Kappa Conference
Irvine, CA » Nov 6, 2010 - TEDxYerevan
Yerevan, Armenia » Sep 25, 2010 - MIT: Startup Bootcamp II
Cambridge, MA » Sep 11, 2010 - Swagapalooza
New York, NY » Sep 9, 2010 - BetaWorks
New York, NY » Sep 7, 2010 - MassChallenge
Boston, MA » Aug 20, 2010 - Real Estate Connect SF 2010
San Francisco, CA » July 13-15, 2010 - Angel Bootcamp
Cambridge, MA » June 1, 2010 - Next Conference 2010
Berlin, Germany » May 11-12, 2010 - University of Edinburgh Business School
Edinburgh, Scotland » Nov 25, 2009 - TED
Mysore, India » Nov 6, 2009 - U of I: Reflections/Projections
Urbana–Champaign, Ill. » Oct 16, 2009 - MIT: Startup Bootcamp
Cambridge, MA » Oct 12, 2009 - Business of Software Conf.
Boston, MA » Sep 03, 2008
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Thanks again for the T-shirt. You really do aim to please.
Adam
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