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November 5, 2013 Tuesday
REDDIT CO-FOUNDER OHANIAN TO SPEAK FRIDAY ON NEW BOOK
Charlottesville, VA
The following information was released by the University of Virginia:
University of Virginia graduate Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the
social news site Reddit, will be on Grounds Friday to share lessons
learned from the companies he's started and to discuss his
best-selling new book, "Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century
Will Be Made, Not Managed."
Ohanian will speak at 8 p.m. in Rouss/Robertson Hall, room 120, along
with three fellow young alumni entrepreneurs: Greg Herrington,
co-founder of DealStage; Jaffray Woodriff, co-founder of Quantitative
Investment Management; and Tommy Nicholas, co-founder of
Coffitivity.com, The City Swig and High Five.
The talk will be preceded by an informal cookout at Hack Cville (#9
Elliwoood Ave. on the Corner) starting at 6 p.m., and will be followed
by a networking opportunity in Rouss/Robertson Hall and then an
afterparty at Hack Cville, starting at 10 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come,
first-in, although organizers request that those interested in
attending RSVP here.
Books will be available for purchase, and Ohanian will be signing
books after the talk.
Billing itself as the "front page of the Internet," Reddit is a
user-driven social news site and global discussion board with more
than 80 million users whose collective wisdom rises to the top of
thousands of subsections dedicated to just about any topic or interest
imaginable, from cute cat photos to nuclear weapon technology. This
has made Reddit one of the 50 biggest U.S. websites.
Ohanian and fellow Wahoo Steve Huffman co-founded Reddit in 2005 while
they were still undergrads at U.Va. Ohanian continued to manage the
product and business at Reddit until leaving in 2010 to volunteer in
Armenia for Kiva.org. Today he sits on the board of Reddit.
Ohanian has gone on to help start or invest in more than 60 other
startup ventures, including the travel website Hipmunk, founded by
Huffman, and his own social enterprise, Breadpig, which has generated
more than $200,000 for charities. Based now in Brooklyn, Ohanian is
also "Ambassador to the East" for the influential Silicon Valley-based
early-stage venture firm Y Combinator.
His new book combines "advice for building successful startup ventures
and marketing secrets with examples of heartwarming stories about
using the Internet for grassroots campaigns," according to a CNN
review. "It will also include doodles, which perhaps shouldn't be
surprising coming from the man who designed the logos for Breadpig,
Hipmunk and Reddit."
The Ohanian events are presented by Hack Cville, the Entrepreneurship
Group at U.Va., the Alpha Kappa Psi co-ed business fraternity at
U.Va., the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School
of Commerce, and the Batten Institute at the Darden School of
Business.
From: Baghdasarian
November 5, 2013 Tuesday
REDDIT CO-FOUNDER OHANIAN TO SPEAK FRIDAY ON NEW BOOK
Charlottesville, VA
The following information was released by the University of Virginia:
University of Virginia graduate Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of the
social news site Reddit, will be on Grounds Friday to share lessons
learned from the companies he's started and to discuss his
best-selling new book, "Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century
Will Be Made, Not Managed."
Ohanian will speak at 8 p.m. in Rouss/Robertson Hall, room 120, along
with three fellow young alumni entrepreneurs: Greg Herrington,
co-founder of DealStage; Jaffray Woodriff, co-founder of Quantitative
Investment Management; and Tommy Nicholas, co-founder of
Coffitivity.com, The City Swig and High Five.
The talk will be preceded by an informal cookout at Hack Cville (#9
Elliwoood Ave. on the Corner) starting at 6 p.m., and will be followed
by a networking opportunity in Rouss/Robertson Hall and then an
afterparty at Hack Cville, starting at 10 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come,
first-in, although organizers request that those interested in
attending RSVP here.
Books will be available for purchase, and Ohanian will be signing
books after the talk.
Billing itself as the "front page of the Internet," Reddit is a
user-driven social news site and global discussion board with more
than 80 million users whose collective wisdom rises to the top of
thousands of subsections dedicated to just about any topic or interest
imaginable, from cute cat photos to nuclear weapon technology. This
has made Reddit one of the 50 biggest U.S. websites.
Ohanian and fellow Wahoo Steve Huffman co-founded Reddit in 2005 while
they were still undergrads at U.Va. Ohanian continued to manage the
product and business at Reddit until leaving in 2010 to volunteer in
Armenia for Kiva.org. Today he sits on the board of Reddit.
Ohanian has gone on to help start or invest in more than 60 other
startup ventures, including the travel website Hipmunk, founded by
Huffman, and his own social enterprise, Breadpig, which has generated
more than $200,000 for charities. Based now in Brooklyn, Ohanian is
also "Ambassador to the East" for the influential Silicon Valley-based
early-stage venture firm Y Combinator.
His new book combines "advice for building successful startup ventures
and marketing secrets with examples of heartwarming stories about
using the Internet for grassroots campaigns," according to a CNN
review. "It will also include doodles, which perhaps shouldn't be
surprising coming from the man who designed the logos for Breadpig,
Hipmunk and Reddit."
The Ohanian events are presented by Hack Cville, the Entrepreneurship
Group at U.Va., the Alpha Kappa Psi co-ed business fraternity at
U.Va., the Galant Center for Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School
of Commerce, and the Batten Institute at the Darden School of
Business.
From: Baghdasarian