[9387367]

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_co...

previously:

2006 - https://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupsto...

2007 - https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...

2007 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219

2010 - https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/d2njs/til_th...

2011 - https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-...

2011 - https://archive.md/IRuu8

2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24713422

2021 - https://www.redditinc.com/#section-4

[jimhi]

I clicked through your links and the explanations Paul, Alexis, Steve, and even Aaron himself write are pretty consistent.

This comment is very unfair

[password4321]

> 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

> ...

> 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

Did you link the same discussion twice on purpose?

[9387367]

Thanks 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]

also https://hn-saga.com/?q=aaron for past number one posts about Aaron