Reddit CEO honors Alexis Ohanian's request to fill his seat with a black board member

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced Friday that he would resign from his board seat and urged the company to replace him with a candidate who is black. Shortly thereafter, in a thread on the the site, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed that the company will move forward with Ohanian's request.

"Alexis Ohanian (u/kn0thing), my Reddit cofounder, announced that he is resigning from our board and that he wishes for his seat to be filled with a black candidate, a request that the board and I will honor," Huffman, known on the site as spez, wrote. "We thank Alexis for this meaningful gesture and all that he’s done for us over the years." Read more...

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