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Orianna Rosa Royle

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian kept receipts from trolls who mocked his bet on women's sports: ‘I tag them and thank them for the motivation’

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Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit who is married to tennis great Serena Williams, started investing in women’s sports in 2020. And it all began with a tweet.

In March 2019, the multimillionaire wrote on the platform formerly known as Twitter, female soccer stars “should get paid what they deserve” and that women’s sports is a “massively undervalued asset.”

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