“I felt really bad as a wife, & I never told him” – When Serena Williams teased husband Alexis Ohanian about her dislike for his social media company

Serena Williams once playfully teased her husband, Alexis Ohanian, admitting she felt bad for not liking his social media company, Reddit. The two have been married since 2017 and share two daughters, Olympia and Adira.

Alexis Ohanian is one of the original co-founders of Reddit. He and his college roommate, Steve Huffman, launched the platform in June 2005 after being accepted into the first batch of Y Combinator. Just a year later, they sold it to Conde Nast for an estimated $10–20 million.

In 2020, the tech mogul made headlines when he publicly resigned from Reddit’s board on June 5 as a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. He urged the company to replace him with a Black board member and pledged to use his future gains from Reddit stock to support the Black community, with a focus on fighting racial hate.

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Talking about that in a 2020 interview with Vogue, Serena Williams said the decision genuinely made her happy. She admitted she was never a big fan of Reddit and even joked that now that Ohanian had officially stepped down, she could finally tell him how much she “hated” the platform.

“I was happy because I’d never been a fan of Reddit. I felt really bad as a wife, and I never told him because it’s his company – but I was like, ‘Thank goodness, now I can tell you how I really feel.’ They stepped up, and now I love them again," the 23-time Grand Slam champion said.

Just like Serena Williams joked about not liking Reddit, Alexis Ohanian also confessed that he never really liked tennis until he watched Serena play. Seeing her on the court completely changed how he viewed the sport.

Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian: "I hated tennis until I met my wife"

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