Is It Not 'Obvious'?

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I know exactly what you're ea, it's obvious. Ere, it's how is it not obvious? It's obvious what you're doing. Advertising sucks. We're competing with go and face book sucks. And every one of them fought their asses off to get the revenue growth that it's gotten now. If you can make money in a way that makes your users happy, much better. Well, i meany and you guys, i know you gys. Blue past, forty fifty million in revenue, like two, three years ago. So this is lik a real big number, but it's not. People reall had a hard time advertising on readit because...

1:02 Jason welcomes Alexis Ohanian to the show and asks about the Reddit sale & re-joining for the turnaround
3:39 Why was Reddit "the last website standing" from all of the Web 2.0 sales in the early 2000s?
6:05 History of Reddit Gold, future of micropayments & what will Reddit's Blockchain venture entail?
14:59 Future of creators being able to monetize using micropayments, policing speech on Reddit
19:45 Fatherhood, being a Girl Dad, balancing personal life & work life
29:12 What is Alexis' role at Initialized? How Initialized is turning Venture Capital into a team sport
36:10 Dealing with celebrity as a partner at a VC firm, building talent when starting Initialized
42:44 Why Initialized's small ownership percentage was an issue early on, and how they think about it now
47:59 Jason calls Reddit's crypto project: "The most credible thing I've ever seen in crypto.", parsing through legitimate and non-legitimate crypto businesses
54:33 What investor skills has Alexis improved and what still needs work?
1:00:52 Dealing with icon-level celebrity in his personal life
1:04:30 Jason reveals the winner from their 2013 bet during Alexis' last appearance on This Week in Startups