Who Is Serena Williams' Husband Who Has A Net Worth Of Rp594.12 Billion?

Serena William and her husband, Aleix Ohanian (Instagram @alexisohanian)

JAKARTA - Alexis Ohanian is the husband of American tennis player Serena Williams. Marca reported, Thursday, he has a fairly large personal wealth.

Born in 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, Ohanian comes from an Armenian family. A 2005 graduate from the University of Virginia, he began focusing on business and the internet while in college and is a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity. At that time, he majored in business and history.

Currently, Ohanian is a technology entrepreneur who has a net worth of US$40 million (Rp594.12 billion).

After college, he founded several internet companies. Ohanian and his friend Steve Huffman originally pitched the MyMobileMenu idea to Y Combinator.

In 2005, he co-founded Reddit, a news website, where users post and rate news content. Reddit was part of Y Combinator's first start-up group in the summer of 2005.

Conde Nast bought it a year later for an undisclosed price believed to have ranged from $10 million to $20 million.

Alexis works closely with Reddit as a member of its board of directors. He returned full-time to Reddit with Huffman in July 2015 to run the now independent company.

Ohanian later stepped down from Reddit in February 2018 to focus his efforts on investing. He also resigned from the Reddit board on June 5, 2020, and asked to be replaced by an African-American candidate in response to the murder of George Floyd.

Michael Seibel, an entrepreneur of color, was appointed to the Reddit board on June 10, 2020.

In October 2015, rumors circulated that Alexis was dating tennis superstar Serena Williams. On December 29, 2016, Serena and Alexis announced they were engaged after spending more than a year secretly dating away from the press.

They married in November 2017 and welcomed a daughter into the world a few months earlier, in September.