Alexis Ohanian parents: Anke Ohanian, Chris Ohanian

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The famous Alexis Kerry Ohanian is an American-Armenian internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz.

After college, he founded several internet companies. Ohanian and his friend Steve Huffman originally pitched the idea of MyMobileMenu to Y Combinator. In 2005, he co-founded Reddit, a news website, where users post and rank news content. Reddit was part of Y Combinator’s first batch of start-ups in the summer of 2005.

Conde Nast bought it a year later for an undisclosed figure believed to be in the region of 10m to 20m dollars. Alexis worked closely with Reddit as a member of its board of directors. He returned full-time to Reddit with Huffman in July 2015 to run the now-independent company.

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Alexis Ohanian parents: Anke Ohanian, Chris Ohanian

Anke is Alexis’ mother. She was born and raised in Germany and studied at a school of Pharmacy. Chris is the father of Alexis. He was born in San Francisco, California, United States.

Alexis Ohanian parents nationality and ethnicity

Alexis Kerry Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, New York. His paternal grandparents came to the United States as refugees after the Armenian genocide. Ohanian’s mother was from Germany.

Are Alexis Ohanian parents still alive?

Anke passed on in 2008, after suffering from a brain tumor. She was aged 54. She had passed on at her home in Columbia, MD. Chris is still alive and lives in Maryland. Chris is an entrepreneur and the owner of Infinity Global Travel.

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