Alexis Ohanian says he’s a ‘techno optimist,’ despite social media’s impact on society

It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a ledge and landed at TechCrunch. I don’t get self referential a lot here on the pages of TC, but I figured that a tin anniversary is a nice time to look at what we’ve done over the past decade as we approach this year’s Disrupt, coming […]

Aug 28, 2023

This week on the TechCrunch Podcast, I’m stepping in for the podcast’s usual host Darrell, and taking a closer look at what’s happening at Reddit. The popular social media company seems to be hell-bent on alienating as much of its user base as possible after introducing a policy that significantly increases the price of access […]

Jun 23, 2023

If you spend time on X or Threads, where snarky memes rise and fall, you’ve probably seen posts referencing “founder mode” over the last few days, like this: https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C_eaQAxyIcV Or maybe this: kanye actually invented founder mode pic.twitter.com/zKmHM9jk8P— Jared Palmer (@jaredpalmer) September 3, 2024 You may even have seen this parody about “goblin mode.” The chatter ties to a recent blog post that Y Combinator founder and dispenser of startup wisdom Paul Gr

Sep 4, 2024

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, tweeted that if he could go back in time and do one thing differently when he was building Reddit, he would have spent significantly less time attending events. Personally I […]

Oct 13, 2023