(Founder Stories) From Paul Newman to Paul Graham with Alexis Ohanian (TCTV)
June 02, 2011 at 11:20 AM EDT
Alexis Ohanain continues his coversation with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon by discussing some of his activities and interests outside of Reddit . Highlights of their chat include Ohanian telling Dixon he considers Paul Newman, "the OG of social enterprise" and that Newman was the inspiration for Breadpig , Ohanian's organization that creates "geeky things" and donates profits to worthy causes. On his role as the Y Combinator ambassador to New York, where Ohanain mentors budding New York-based Y Combinator founders, Ohanian notes "you can't spell New York City without YC" and on founding his angel investing firm Das Kapital Capital , Ohanian says he did it, "mostly so I can mess with the tellers of Bank of America—are you a communist?”