Two college graduates with a little savings, no connections, and little-to-no experience started a company from their apartment.
They faced many problems with users revolting and their friendship strained.
Despite all this, Reddit grew and has over 300 million active users, and a valuation of nearly 2 billion dollars.
What you could learn from this episode:
- What was their first idea
- Their rejection from a VC and what they did
- How and why they changed their idea.
- Which websites inspired Reddit
- How they got the name Reddit
- How they came up with the idea for the Reddit mascot.
- What they did when Reddit was close to getting shutting down
- How Alex met Tennis superstar Serena Williams and got married
- How they brought back order to Reddit again.
