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by 9387367 1684 days 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_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

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

This comment is very unfair

> 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?

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