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Raldi responded a year ago to how much Aaron was a "cofounder": "Aaron Swartz founded a company called Infogami that merged with reddit to form "not a bug", so

Raldi responded a year ago to how much Aaron was a "cofounder": "Aaron Swartz founded a company called Infogami that merged with reddit to form "not a bug", so this is sort of like Steve Case calling himself a Time Warner cofounder. " http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9r8on/aaron_swartz_cofounder_of_reddit_was_investigated/c0e2p9m http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9r8on/aaron_swar... Alexis responds via Twitter: ATTN @nytimes Steve Huffman & I founded @reddit. We acquired Aaron Swartz's company infogami 6mos after we launched. https://twitter.com/#!/kn0thing/status/93374221685755904 https://twitter.com/#!/kn0thing/status/93374221685755904

zach 15y ago
I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different reasons then versus now). I haven't heard of much YC intermerging since then. I would be interested to hear what the current status and thinking is on the subject of YC startups merging with each other.
- nostrademons 15y ago
  It happens all the time, although I think it's now more typical for successful YC startups to bring the founders of less-successful YC startups on board as early employees. Scribd was apparently formed from the merger (and reshuffling) of 3 YC startups. Slinkset merged into Posterous. I was just talking a couple months ago with a former YC founder I knew from Google about founding another startup, but he ended up signing on with an existing YC company as an early employee instead.
RyanMcGreal 15y ago
OTOH: > paulgraham 45 points 4 years ago > Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the founders of both startups are considered founders of the combined company. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1okmc http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...

zach 15y ago

I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different reasons then versus now). I haven't heard of much YC intermerging since then. I would be interested to hear what the current status and thinking is on the subject of YC startups merging with each other.

nostrademons 15y ago
It happens all the time, although I think it's now more typical for successful YC startups to bring the founders of less-successful YC startups on board as early employees. Scribd was apparently formed from the merger (and reshuffling) of 3 YC startups. Slinkset merged into Posterous. I was just talking a couple months ago with a former YC founder I knew from Google about founding another startup, but he ended up signing on with an existing YC company as an early employee instead.

RyanMcGreal 15y ago

OTOH: > paulgraham 45 points 4 years ago > Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the founders of both startups are considered founders of the combined company. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1okmc http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...