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Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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How Reddit Helped You Through Cancer

The summer that Reddit launched in 2005, Alexis' life kind of sort of went off the rails. Two months after we launched, his girlfriend had a pretty serious accident falling out of a five-story window. A month later, my mother was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. And so you go from feeling invulnerable at 21 or 22 to start just months into starting a business.

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