Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian resigns from board
Armenian-American entrepreneur, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is resigning from the company's board and asking that he be replaced with a more diverse choice.
In a series of tweets Friday, Ohanian urged Reddit to fill his seat with a black candidate, CNN reported. Ohanian, who is married to tennis star Serena Williams, cited his family as one of the reasons for his decision. He tweeted: "I'm saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?’"
He also pledged $1 million to Colin Kaepernick's nonprofit Know Your Rights Camp. "I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate," Ohanian tweeted.
Reddit said it would honor Ohanian's request. "I want to take responsibility for the history of our policies over the years that got us here, and we still have work to do," Reddit CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman wrote on Reddit.