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The Reddits | Y Combinator (www.ycombinator.com)
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Reddit was one of the reasons Y Combinator was started. This post tells the story of how the site came to be. Despite being rejected in the first round for their food delivery app idea, Reddit's founders were offered funding after agreeing to work on a project that would eventually become Reddit. The project was launched on a quick schedule. It had a core set of real users after just a few weeks. Reddit is now a fundamentally useful tool that seems almost unkillable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Call me jaded but the timing of this Puff piece is suss.

As with all the really great startups, there's an uncannily close match between the company and the founders. Steve in particular. Reddit has a certain personality — curious, skeptical, ready to be amused — and that personality is Steve's. Steve will roll his eyes at this, but he's an intellectual

Barf

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The good parts of Reddit came from Aaron Swartz. Everything since then has been these guys trying to squeeze as much money out as possible (remember Reddit Coins?).