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For historical value, the effort to remove Aaron as Reddit co-founder by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman. paulgraham 40 points 14 years ago Aaron's not wrong
by 9387367 5y ago
For historical value, the effort to remove Aaron as Reddit co-founder by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman.
paulgraham 40 points 14 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.
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1okmc/ https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...
previously:
2006 - https://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupstories.com/2006/11/29/passion-for-your-users-will-come-back-alexis-ohanian-co-founder-of-reddit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupsto...
2007 - https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cofounder_aaron_swartz_discusses_how_he/c1oewi/?context=3 https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...
2007 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219
2010 - https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_there_was_a_third_cofounder_of_reddit_who_was/c0x40yz/?context=3 https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_th...
2011 - https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-charged-with-data-theft/ https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-...
2011 - https://archive.md/IRuu8 https://archive.md/IRuu8
2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419
2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24713422 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24713422
2021 - https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4 https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4
- jimhi 5y agoI clicked through your links and the explanations Paul, Alexis, Steve, and even Aaron himself write are pretty consistent. This comment is very unfair
- password4321 5y ago> 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419 > ... > 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419 Did you link the same discussion twice on purpose?
- 9387367 5y agoThanks for catching that, it was probably something different but I’ve deleted it now and added another discussion from 2007 where pg also commented, there’s a lot more discussions, these are just a sample.
- tmvnty 5y agoalso https://hn-saga.com/?q=aaron https://hn-saga.com/?q=aaron for past number one posts about Aaron