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Who is Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian?
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Who is Alexis Ohanian and what does he do?
Ohanian is a businessman best known for being the co-founder of , which was launched in 2005.
Based in San Francisco, Reddit calls itself “the front page of the internet” and has millions of users.
Ohanian was born in New York City and currently lives in Florida with Williams and their young child.
He was once dubbed by as the Mayor of the internet.
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“Reddit can’t have lunch with a politician or do an interview on CNN," he told Forbes in a 2012 interview.
"So I do my best to represent them.
"But I’m not the leader of this movement. It’s led by anyone, by everyone.”
How long has he been married to Serena Williams?
Ohanian wed in 2017, and the couple has a 3-year-old daughter, also named Alexis.
They met two years earlier in Rome when they both stayed in the same hotel.
He proposed to Williams at the hotel in 2016 over a romantic dinner for two near the pool deck which was covered in roses.
Following the engagement, the athlete posted a on the Reddit thread "I said yes" about the proposal.
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Why Alexis Ohanian resign from Reddit?
Ohanian gave up his seat at the company hoping that it would be filled by a Black candidate.
"I co-founded Reddit 15 years ago to help people find community and a sense of belonging," he wrote on Instagram.
"It is long overdue to do the right thing. I’m doing this for me, for my family, and for my country.
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"I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'"
He added: "I have resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, and I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate.
Ohanian has also donated $1million to Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights Camp.
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