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Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is literally the story of almost every successful tech venture. Even in the company I work for, the CEO was a former salesperson while the dev who started it all was still a dev after 20 years. He singlehandedly created the entire product catalog but no one outside of the company knows his name. The CEO's name is all over everything, including a "book" he "wrote".

    There's always a low profile nerd somewhere in the background who is absolutely key to the whole operation but they rarely get cred.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man I wish you were wrong but I have seen this exact thing 95% of the times I had a look behind closed doors of companies.

    And even more dumb: this nerd usually gets undervalued, and as soon as they leave, it takes about half a year for ppl to realize how fucked they are and frantic recruitment noises to fill the offices in the hopes to pick up the pieces.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Huffman was fucking pissed about how good Alien Blue and Apollo were. He bought and absolutely fucking ruined AB and when he couldn’t buy Apollo (he tried) he crushed it under his boot heel.

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