This is a fabulous read for those interested in startups. Alexis Ohanian (one of the founders of Reddit) talks about some of the life challenges on entrepreneurship.

Steve and I spent every waking hour (and some dreaming, no doubt) after graduation with reddit somewhere on our minds. The time we spent working on it together only reinforced the marriage metaphor everyone uses about cofounders.

My life — and thus Steve’s — was dramatically changed during those startup months for reasons beyond my control. I’ve lived a ridiculously fortunate life, so I knew it was only a matter of time before something was going to knock things a bit off course; I just didn’t think it’d happen like this.

Just a month after we started working on reddit, Steve and I were wrapping up a game of WoW around 4am. I’d only been asleep for an hour when my cellphone rang.

Read the whole article here.