Reddit founder speaking at Rice Feb. 26

Reddit.com founder Alexis Ohanian will stop at Rice Feb. 26 as part of his national tour to present his new book, “Without Their Permission.”

Reddit, a contraction of “read it,” as in “I already read it,” is a source for what is new and popular on the Web where users submit content and decide, through voting, “what’s good and what’s junk.”

Ohanian will explore the current potential for online entrepreneurship, advise students who have dreams of launching startups and offer tips for using the Internet to catapult grassroots campaigns. The lecture is sponsored by the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership.

His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium.

The Rice Bookstore plans to have copies of Ohanian’s book for sale at the event.

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