“I was always a weird kid. My dad can certainly attest to that,” Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, told “Off The Cuff.” “He's still waiting for me to outgrow a lot of that, but it's not happening. I'll be thirty in a few months. Nothing’s changed.”

In addition to Reddit, Ohanian founded a social enterprise website, Breadpig, and helped launch Hipmunk, a travel-search website. He founded an investment firm, Das Kapital Capital. He’s invested in more than 60 other tech startups. He’s a multi-millionaire—and yes, he’s only 29 years old. If that makes him weird, we’ll have what he’s having.

Ohanian had intended to become an immigration lawyer. In his junior year of college, after suffering through an LSAT preparation test, he and a friend went to a Waffle House to commiserate. Those must have been some waffles, because Ohanian had a life-changing epiphany there: He wouldn’t be a lawyer, he would be a “startup guy.”

In 2005, he founded Reddit with Steve Huffman, his college roommate. Reddit is a social news website where content submitted by users (‘redditors’) is voted on by the community. The stories that receive the most votes rise to the top and front pages of the site.

“The best advice I got was write, write, write because if you're a writer you have to write every day - as much as you can - and everything else kind of just falls to the side. You have to be obsessive,” the author Ben Mezrich told Off The Cuff. Some of Mezrich’s best-known works are 'Bringing Down the House:The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions' which was adapted for film and released as '21' and 'The Accidental Billionaires:The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal ' which he helped develop into the movie 'The Social Network'.

Mezrich is a self-styled gonzo writer of non-fiction, whose stories focus on “young geniuses” making their fortunes with their wits and questionable ethics. Mezrich's books have made him a fortune. By one estimate, Mezrich has a net worth of $35 million. ‘Bringing Down the House’ spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, and sold more than two- million copies, in fifteen languages. ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ was on the list for eighteen weeks. “I think wealth to me is being able to pick up and go when you want, where you want to go, live how you want to live. It’s not necessarily a Ferrari parked out front or a massive beach house. But it is the ability to, on a Wednesday, to get up and fly somewhere,” he said.