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Benzinga
Benzinga
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Jeannine Mancini

Reddit Co-Founder Sold It For $10 Million As Mom Battled Brain Cancer, Girlfriend Lay In A Coma & Dog Died—Now It's Worth $35 Billion. 'I Was Naive'

The Reddit Trade

Reddit is packed with stories of people who cashed out too early, but none hit quite like the one told by the guy who helped build the platform from nothing.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian sat down with Wired's "Uncanny Valley" podcast in August and laid out a version of Reddit's origin story that blends early-internet scrappiness with real-life upheaval. 

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