Alexis Ohanian Says He Stepped Down from Reddit Board to Help ‘Make a Better World’ for Daughter Olympia

In addition to stepping down from the board, Ohanian also announced he would be donating future gains from his Reddit stock to help the black community — starting with a $1 million pledge to Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp nonprofit.

Asking her husband why he decided to step down, Williams, 38, stressed that he was the one to make the decision. “A lot of people might think I told you to do something, or I forced you — ” she said, as her husband laughed. “He doesn’t listen to me, ever.”

“I thought about what those dollars could do for a community that has clearly suffered for far too long, and that I with my power and my influence and my privilege want to do something meaningful to start to show a change. To make a better world for Olympia,” Ohanian said, referencing their 2½-year-old daughter.

Ohanian went on to explain that when his daughter grows up, he wanted to be able to answer her questions about what he’s done to fight against racial injustice “with the clearest conscience.”

“I wanted to put as much weight behind the gesture as I could because I felt I owed it to you and I owed it to her,” he said.

“One of the things that really broke me at some point in the last week, I was looking at Olympia, she’s 2½ now, and she is such a pure, just blank canvas,” he continued. “She only knows love. There is not an ounce of hate in her body.”