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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 02: Alexis Ohanian looks on prior to the Women’s Singles Third Round match between Ajla Tomlijanovic of Australia and Serena Williams of the United States on Day Five of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 02, 2022 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 02: Alexis Ohanian looks on prior to the Women’s Singles Third Round match between Ajla Tomlijanovic of Australia and Serena Williams of the United States on Day Five of the 2022 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 02, 2022 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Did Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian make his first earning by collecting rookie NFT cards? Recently, the Reddit co-founder revealed his first earning and his first business idea that came to him during the 1990s when an explosion of sports cards took place in the NFT world.
Even today, the 39-year-old American entrepreneur is quite into making investments in NFTs. And is also one of the early investors in some of the cryptocurrency investment companies launched lately. He believes that this is the best future investment any businessman can ever invest in.
Alexis Ohanian reveals his love for NFTs
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Recently, in an interview with Forbes the Reddit co-founder out his first earning. And how he had his first business idea of collecting rookie cars and making small investments in NFTs back in his early teenage days. Additionally, he also revealed his reaction to his first earning of $4 that came through the same, which lead to a hooray moment.
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PARIS, FRANCE June 4. Alexis Ohanian, husband of Serena Williams of the United States reacts in the stands during her match against Danielle Collins of the United States on Court Philippe-Chatrier during the third round of the singles competition at the 2021 French Open Tennis Tournament at Roland Garros on June. 4th 2021 in Paris, France. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)
He said, “I’d see a card worth $4 and I was like, ‘Oh my god, I just made a ton of money.’ I hadn’t thought through the fact that if there are a million of these cards, that devalues the supply.”
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Further, back in those days, the tennis legend’s husband was quite proud of his $4 investment. And appreciated that he created a lot of money. And since then, he has been a regular investor in the NFTs. Not only does he make the investment in his name, but he also likes to invest on behalf of his wife and his five-year-old daughter Olympia. A few years ago, the well-known businessman made one of the most significant personal investments in himself by amassing the world’s largest Serena Williams card collection.
Ohanian’s first business concept enabled him to make his biggest individual investment
Moreover, the skills of collecting rookie cards helped the Reddit co-founder to create his own biggest personal investment by collecting the most cards, named after the American tennis legend.
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Back in 2021, he revealed that he casually started collecting the Serena Williams card collection. And after a year and a half, he created his own huge personal investment of having the world’s largest Williams card collection. Not only that, but he also revealed that he also tried gifting digital collectible cards to the former world number one also at times.
