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Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian
Only one of Reddit's two cofounders is named in a new filing that puts the company weeks away from going public. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, now CEO, fell out in 2020.
Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian spent about eight straight years living together, initially as college room mates, playing World of Warcraft late into the night and later working together on the foundations of the discussion forums service now frequented by nearly 270 million people. But the gregarious Ohanian had been the public face of Reddit during its formative years and to early users was a kind of spiritual leader who shaped the community’s culture while Huffman worked on the code. But Huffman has held the reins in more recent history and has led work on developing potential paths to consistent profits that he and Ohanian never could envision in the early days.
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