Advice I’d give my 20-year-old self [Video]

Alexis Ohanian built Reddit right after college and sold the company a year later for $10 million. In 2020, he launched his own start-up venture capital fund called 776. But the 41-year-old tech executive might have been even more successful had he mastered discipline in his younger years, he told the “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast on Monday.

“When I had free time, when I had more youthful vigor, if I had more discipline, I would have been 10 times more productive,” Ohanian said. “That’s one thing I would give advice to myself at 20 about.”

For example, as a student and young entrepreneur, Ohanian stayed up for hours trying to finish work that would have taken him 20 minutes the next day had he gone to bed at a reasonable time, he said. 

His drive was strongly fueledby a desire for his mom to see him become a successful CEO, as she battled with stage four terminal …