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Nov 2024
1h 4m

Alexis Ohanian: Why I Left Reddit and Wh...

SIMON SINEK
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In 2020, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from his own company in protest. After 15 years building Reddit into a social media juggernaut, why leave? 
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