The Career Setback That Led Alexis Ohanian to Start Reddit
The road to success is often paved with rejection.
Alexis Ohanian: Y Combinator Rejected Us
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You’ve probably been there. You’re under consideration for the perfect job. You crush the interview and hit it off with your would-be boss. You even figure out you have that random friend in common from way back when! Then you get the call. "Sorry, we're going in another direction." Devastation.
Reddit’s founders know the feeling. As college students, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman started a company called My Mobile Menu, or MMM. They pitched the idea to Y Combinator, the then-new startup breeding ground.