[mard]

I found an Observer article[1] from 2011 that gives some more insight. It looks to me that Aaron could indeed be considered a Reddit co-founder. However, Huffman and Ohanian may have felt threatened by being associated to the criminal later on, so they went with a new narrative.

[1]: https://observer.com/2011/07/rumors-acquisitions-did-reddit-...

[lawnchair_larry]

Every time this comes up, they have always been pretty clear that they felt he didn’t earn his spot and was MIA for most of the early work. So he joined after they started reddit, making him not a cofounder, and he abdicated his responsibilities after joining and being told by PG to give him a cofounder title, which they weren’t in a great position to decline. It’s hard to set the record straight here without denigrating someone, so they were always in an awkward position when this came up.

I don’t know anyone involved, but that’s the impression I got after seeing this topic beat to death on HN and reddit over the last 10ish years.

I doubt they cared at all that he was charged years after he left.