I Had to Find Meaning: Ohanian on His Volunteer Work in Armenia

My father's family fled from Turkey during the Armenian Genocide, and my mother was an undocumented immigrant, wrote Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, in a commentary on his Instagram post regarding his interview with Forbes.

“For the first time, when I left Reddit in 2010 (I was 27 years old), I volunteered for 4 months in Armenia for kiva.org. I needed to find meaning, and it was one of the best decisions I ever made in my career,” he stated in the description of his Instagram post.

In the introduction of his interview with Forbes, it is mentioned, “Ohanian’s ancestors were killed during the Armenian Genocide, and their property was seized. This is a generational trauma, the main reason he is making big bets on the future of NFTs and social media despite the winter crisis in crypto.”

One of Alexis's earliest memories is of his great-grandmother Vera, who detailed to him on his sixth birthday how she and her uncle were killed during the Armenian Genocide while walking through the desert in Syria. During his childhood, his great-grandfather, Avedis, witnessed Turkish soldiers beheading his parents, and when they tried to capture him, the young boy was sent to an orphanage in Istanbul before he could find his way...