Alexis Ohanian: Daily Routine

Once consumed by startups, Alexis Ohanian now prioritises smoothies, sleep, and being a present dad over 24/7 grind.

For the first 34 years of his life, in which a large chunk was devoted to the social news website Reddit — dubbed by Paul Graham as the “front page of the Internet” — the company’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian admits that building the business took priority over things like his physical and mental wellbeing.

“In the early days of Reddit, Steve focused on writing codes, and I focused on everything else,” Ohanian told Observer about the early days of Reddit. “From designing our website and the company logo to tending to actual business affairs, talking to customers, going to cafes and getting people to try out our software so we could get some basic user testing.”