Who is Serena Williams husband Alexis Ohanian?
ALEXIS Ohanian - who is married to tennis star Serena Williams - is the co-founder of Reddit. Ohanian quit his job at the company in June of 2020 and said he made the move for his family and his country. Ohanian is a businessman best known for being the co-founder of Reddit, 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 Forbes as the Mayor of the internet. 4 Ohanian is the co-founder of Reddit Credit: Getty Images - Getty  Reddit cant 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 Im not the leader of this movement. Ohanian wed Williams 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 poem on the Reddit thread "I said yes" about the proposal. 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. Im doing this for me, for my family, and for my country. 4 Ohanian cheers on his wife at Wimbledon in 2019 Credit: Getty - Contributor  "Im 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.