Well, see, Aaron Swartz isn't a billionaire, so he doesn't matter.
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For those not in the know:
Swartz's involvement in Reddit is debated. He is considered the co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham as a result of the merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Reddit. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Ohanian considers Swartz a co-owner of Reddit.
Sounds like a similar situation to Elon and Tesla, no?
Arguably Elon and PayPal, since that was a merger, but not Tesla, which he bought his way into ex post facto.
Aaron was instrumental in rewriting Reddit from spez's half-baked lisp prototype to python. And that was before python hit it big. Kn0thing can't code and neither could spez. Without Aaron, reddit would never have scaled.
Fuck /u/spez
lol at the redacted usernames, like it's a secret or something
It's a definition thing.
You are correct Aaron wasn't instrumental in creating reddit (Which most would agree is a prerequisite to being considered a founder I presume.), his company got grafted to it and he was given a founder title.
sounds like a founder in all but name, so what if he came a year later, the intent to leave him out is clear considering they were willing to before.
Steve Huffman... Isn't he that greedy little pig boy?
From Wikipedia
Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in June 2005, who were joined by Aaron Swartz that November.
I think it's reasonable to say that if you weren't there for the original ideation, you're not a founder. Doesn't mean Aaron wasn't an amazing person.
something tells me you're not going to get the full objective history of this from wikipedia
Ship of Theseus argument: would Aaron recognize Reddit of today with all its....improvements...as the Reddit he knew? Those two founded something that has the name but not the soul.
huffman cant stop smelling MUSKs faerts, ohanian sold out for something else.
Aaron was by far the best of them all. That documentary moved me to tears...
Reddit is a pro-American forum with hard censorship and extremist moderators. They cover that up with funny memes to look like fun. Until you think you can post something yourself.
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