How I Built This with Guy Raz

Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

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Aug 31, 2017
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Meeting and Early Friendship

  • Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman met on their first day of college at the University of Virginia.
  • They became close friends, bonding over video games and eventually living together for eight years.
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My Mobile Menu

  • Alexis Ohanian's initial business idea was "My Mobile Menu," allowing customers to order food from their phones at gas stations.
  • Paul Graham rejected this idea, leading them to conceive Reddit.
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The Pivotal Spring Break

  • During spring break, they attended Paul Graham's lecture at Harvard.
  • This led to a pivotal meeting where Graham initially rejected their idea but later offered to invest if they changed it.
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