Who Is Richer, Serena Williams or Her Husband and Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian? - Sportsmanor (2024)

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Who Is Richer, Serena Williams or Her Husband and Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian? - Sportsmanor? ›

The couple's combined net worth is more than $300 million. Ohanian's venture capital investments and career have earned him a net worth estimated to be $70 million, according to Forbes. Meanwhile, Williams enjoys a net worth of $260 million.

Ohanian is based in Florida, where he lives with his wife, former tennis player Serena Williams, and their daughters, Alexis Olympia Ohanian and Adira River Ohanian. As of 2019, Forbes estimated Ohanian's net worth as $70 million.

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian — How the sports-tech power couple make and spend their millions.

Ohanian isn't listed because he and Huffman sold Reddit to Condé Nast (WIRED's parent company) for about $10 million in 2006, a little over a year after founding it, relinquishing their ownership.

He went on to launch social enterprise Breadpig in 2007 and helped set up travel search website Hipmunk in 2010, before co-founding the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital the same year. Forbes estimate Ohanian's net worth at $70m (£50m).

"Being a Jehovah's Witness is important to me, but I've never really practiced it and have been wanting to get into it," she told Vogue in 2017. Of her husband, she added, "Alexis didn't grow up going to any church, but he's really receptive and even takes the lead. He puts my needs first."

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ohanian was raised an only child by his Armenian father, Chris, and German-born mother, Anke.

The tennis legend continues to make money in retirement too. Notably, Williams has diversified her wealth not only through endorsem*nt deals, but also across multiple businesses. Her venture capital firm, Serena Ventures, invests in under-represented founders, including women and people of colour.

Engagement Ring. Tennis champion Serena William's was proposed to by Alexis Ohanian (the co-founder of Reddit) with a 12 carat emerald-cut diamond valued at around $2 million.

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Alexis Ohanian: from Reddit to smart investments

When he was just 22, Ohanian co-founded the social media platform Reddit with his friend Steve Huffman. In 2006, they reportedly sold it for at least US$10 million. In 2014, Ohanian rejoined the company as an executive chairman.

I'm the co-founder of initialized ($200B in market value) and left my role as Managing Partner in July of 2020 in order to build another venture firm from the ground up, focused on software and empathy, called Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣.

May 12, 2015: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian meet

Williams met Ohanian met by chance when they both sat down next to each other during breakfast at the Cavalieri Hotel in Rome. "This big guy comes and he just plops down at the table next to us, and I'm like, 'Huh!

Proving he really is a great guy, when the Black Lives Matter movement reignited in 2020, Ohanian was one of the only major CEOs to step aside to give a Black person his role at the top of Reddit.

The Williams family moved to Florida on the offer of Rick Macci to coach their daughters for free. By the end of 2000, Price was no longer living with her husband Richard Williams, and citing irreconcilable differences, they divorced in 2002. She reverted to her maiden name of Price.

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Engagement Ring. Tennis champion Serena William's was proposed to by Alexis Ohanian (the co-founder of Reddit) with a 12 carat emerald-cut diamond valued at around $2 million.

It's easy to forget that Serena Williams' first brand partner was Puma, a deal that was signed in 1997 and worth a reported US$12 million (more on that in a lovely trip down memory lane here).

Federer has won $130 million in prize money in his career, but the total is dwarfed by his off-court earnings from appearances and endorsem*nts. The tennis legend's biggest payday yet may come from his stake in Swiss athletic apparel company On, which went public in September 2021.