Alexis Ohanian left the LSAT twenty minutes into the exam and chose entrepreneurship over a planned law career. As a University of Virginia senior in 2005, the original plan had been law school and a secure job, but the Waffle House decision redirected his path. Ohanian and roommate Steve Huffman initially explored a mobile food-ordering idea and attended Paul Graham's lecture instead of spring break. Paul Graham later provided funding that helped launch Reddit, which grew into a multibillion-dollar social platform and joined other college-rooted startup origins.
As a college student, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian walked out of his law school admission exam 20 minutes in-and made the life-changing decision at Waffle House that he was going to become an entrepreneur. Just months later, he and his cofounder received funding from Paul Graham, and the $40 billion social platform was born. Reddit's cofounders join the ranks of companies like Google, Facebook, and Databricks to have direct roots to the college experience.
"So I'd walked out of the LSAT. I had studied for it, I was getting ready for it," he revealed yesterday on Wired's Uncanny Valley podcast. "And then 20 minutes into it, I walked out. I went to a Waffle House and decided I was just gonna invent a career and be an entrepreneur." But waffles and hashbrowns weren't enough to guarantee Ohanian and his roommate, Steve Huffman - the now-CEO of social platform Reddit -success from the start.
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