Reddit.com and Breadpig founder tells about promotion of ideas on the web

March 25, 2010 - 21:08 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - A well-known social entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian from the U.S. met on March 25 with representatives of nongovernmental organizations in Armenia. "There are many problems in the world: it is necessary to focus your audience on a specific group or a person,"Alexis Ohanian said. Alexis Ohanian is also known as co-founder of news aggregator reddit.com.



In 2007, Alexis Ohanian founded a social enterprise Breadpig for sale of amusing things. All proceeds from the sales he directed to construction of schools. Breadpig sold 25 000 copies of its last product Book xkcd. Over the last 2 years the company has provided to charity about $ 100 000.



The meeting was organized by "Professionals for Civil Society" NGO, the successor of the USAID program "Development of NGO sector in Armenia".
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