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by gojomo 5447 days ago
This link from one of the Reddit threads suggests that at least at one time, and perhaps begrudgingly, Alexis would call Aaron a 'co-founder':

http://web.archive.org/web/20070823200504/http://startupstor...

I know nothing of the internal arrangements and disputes. But knowing how these things often go, it's easy to imagine that Aaron was tangentially involved, and the Reddit team needed more help, but Aaron still had another project, where his 'founding' stake/claim was larger.

Offering a founder-ish stake and founder-ish title for bringing that other project in-house (even if the combined team pursues something else) is a common resolution to such a situation.