Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian and I first spoke in person in 2016 on the the day Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. We were attending the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal where we recently met again two years later, this time on the day of the midterms. “That really sucked the air out of the room,” he said, reminiscing about the dramatic change in mood at the conference after the results came in. Though our first meeting was supposed to be a brief conversation about his return to Reddit, which he created in his dorm room alongside Steve Huffman in 2005, we ended up spending ... (full story)