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Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian is a person who... who is he?

Alexis Ohanian, Serena Williams's husband, spoke out after she announced her retirement from tennis to focus on her family and business "I'm happy she put her thoughts into writing.

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His parents were foreigners when he was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Ohanian was born to a German mother and an Armenian refugee father in 1983. His father's family had fled the Armenian genocide.

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Ohanian and Huffman created Reddit in 2005, calling it "the first page of the internet."

In about three weeks, they had a working version of Reddit, and just sixteen months later, they sold it to Condé Nast. Three years after Reddit's acquisition, in 2010, he quit the company.

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In 2015, he made the acquaintance of Serena Williams.

Ohanian and Williams shared a room at the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome. The Italian Open was on Williams' agenda, while Ohanian was there for the Festival of Media Global.

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Paternity leave is something he strongly supports.

After his daughter was born, he took a full 16 weeks off work and began advocating for paid paternity leave.