Alexis Ohanian: All parents, including dads, should have six months of paid family leave

One in four American women are back to work two weeks after giving birth... About a third of babies are born via c-section now, so you've got a material number of women who are coming back to work two weeks after giving birth, who still have wounds, and are still recovering from significant surgery.

To be able to actually create massive business impact has nothing to do with the ability to post hustle porn memes on social media... That does not advance your business, and instead, it promotes a really toxic idea that working yourself to death, sacrificing your emotional and physical health, all those things, it promotes this falsity that those are actually good.

Having dads take paternity leave is not just better for the health of the child, but also for the health of the birthing mother, both physically and emotionally

Almost half of women don't return to the workforce after they have a baby, and that's a ton of talent that's being squandered

Founders have more leverage than they realize, even at the earliest stages, and certainly as their company starts showing traction. But if you're a hot deal, you actually have a lot of power over investors. I think founders are waking up to that and starting to set a higher standard, and also demanding more from the people they take money from.

We went through a lot during the founding of Reddit. I regret not working with a therapist sooner. I regret not working with a coach sooner. I regret spending years eating garbage food.