SERENA AND ALEXIS: How the Tennis ace and tech guru make and spend their millions
Tech guru Alexis Ohanian and tennis superstar Serena Williams formed an incredible power couple when they began dating over the summer of 2015.
Ohanian co-founded popular social media platform Reddit in 2005 and sold it to Condé Nast for $10 million two years later. He was just 23 years old.
“[The Reddit deal was] more money for me than my entire family — my mother and father — had made in their entire lives," Ohanian said.
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Source: NPR
Ohanian rejoined Reddit in 2014 as an executive chairman. The website is the third-most visited in the U.S. and is worth a whopping $1.8 billion.
Source: CNBC
Additionally, he has gotten involved in a number of different projects outside of Reddit in recent years.
He co-founded Initialized Capital, an early stage venture capital firm that boasts over $500 million in assets under management.
Source: LinkedIn
He also helped start the social enterprise Breadpig, which offers supportive services for creators and their companies. His official title is "Founder and Chief Swine Defender."
Source: LinkedIn
And he also serves at the "Head Marketing Dude & Hipmunk Doodler" for travel search website Hipmunk.
Source: LinkedIn
Williams, meanwhile, has a net worth of more than $180 million thanks in large part to $84 million in career prize money — $50 million more than any other professional female tennis player.
Source: Celebrity Net Worth, Business Insider
Williams has also earned millions upon millions of dollars thanks to endorsement deals with companies like Nike, Beats by Dre, Gatorade, JPMorgan Chase, Tempur-Pedic, Aston Martin, Audemars Piguet, Intel, and Wilson.
Source: Business Insider
Additionally, Williams has served on the board of SurveyMonkey since May of 2017.
Williams' and Ohanian's astronomical combined wealth allows the couple to lead a life of opulence and excess.
The duo met late in the spring at the Hotel Cavalieri Hilton, a luxurious hotel that boasts the only 3 Michelin Star restaurant in all of Rome.
Source: Vanity Fair
Ohanian sat down next to Williams outside by the pool and, after trying to trick him that there was a rat at his table, she and her friends invited him to join them.
Source: Vanity Fair
Ohanian had never watched Williams play but agreed to come to her match later that afternoon.
He had just ended his five-year relationship with college sweetheart Sabriya Stukes when he first met Williams.
Source: The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Business Insider
And Williams was widely rumored to be dating rapper Drake despite insisting that they were just friends.
Source: People, Business Insider
Regardless, Ohanian and Williams went on their first date in Paris the following month.
Source: Vanity Fair
Though the duo hadn't yet gone public with their relationship, Ohanian suddenly became a very outspoken women's tennis fan.
He even attended that year's US Open in New York.
And, honestly, it's a miracle that no one caught on.
Serena's beloved Yorkshire Terrier, Chip, debuted on Ohanian's instagram in September of 2015, well before he and Serena did as a couple.
And Ohanian traveled to across the world to watch Williams compete in the Australian Open.
He finally appeared in one of her photos later that year. She singled him out among a big group of friends and referred to him as a "nerd" in the caption.
And shortly after he became a regular on her feed.
Ohanian proposed at The Hotel Cavalieri in Rome — where they first met — on December 10, 2016.
Serena announced the engagement on Reddit using the website's signature "Snoo" alien figures.
I said yes from r/isaidyes
Then she gave everyone on Instagram a glimpse of the ring.
Ohanian jetted across the world to watch his newly-minted fianceé compete in the Australian Open in January of 2017.
Perhaps he took a private jet through Wheels Up like Serena does.
He found out just before the tournament began that the duo unexpectedly had a baby on the way.
Source: Business Insider
Even though she was eight weeks pregnant, Serena still dominated the competition to win her 23rd-career Grand Slam.
Source: INSIDER
On Ohanian's birthday, Serena announced that she was pregnant with an Instagram post complete with a beautiful note to the baby.
And on September 1, 2017, the couple welcomed daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. into the world.
Ever since, the trio has been close to inseparable.
And the baby has been living the good life.
She and her dad sit in the bleachers to watch Serena crush her competition on the court.
She pairs Burberry dresses with Nike kicks like it's nothing.
She goes yachting in sailor's outfits.
And has her own set of Wilson gear.
She even hangs out with tennis great Novak Djokovic.
And became the youngest person to ever grace the cover of Vogue at three months old.
Nearly a month after their daughter was born, Ohanian and Williams tied the knot in an opulent wedding in Louisiana.
Less than a year later, Williams and Ohanian attended one of the only weddings on Earth more extravagant than their own — the wedding of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
More humbly, the couple share a mutual love of football.
And Ohanian's first purchase after selling Reddit was to by field-level season tickets to the Washington Redskins for himself and his father.
Source: CNBC
Ohanian, Williams, and their daughter live together in a $6.7 million Beverly Hills home.
Ohanian and Williams are very philanthropic.
And she actively supports Colin Kaepernick in his activism and actions protesting during his time in the NFL.
Ohanian, meanwhile, is an outspoken advocate for digital rights and has donated money to tech training initiatives.
Source: TechCrunch.com
Regardless of their fabulous shared lifestyle and incredible respective career ambitions, Williams and Ohanian know that their family comes first.
Now check out the fabulous life of another power couple — Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez.
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