▲ 827 ▼ Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech. (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world 215 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TheTechNerd@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child) I mean this is somewhat accurate permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago Swartz founded Infogami, which merged with reddit when they were both early stage incubator startups. In a sense, he became a founder of Not A Bug (which became the parent company of both Infogami and Reddit), but Reddit the subsidiary and project and website predates his involvement. And Reddit, the project, was a big reason why Not A Bug was acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. He provided big early contributions (migrating the code base from lisp to python was a significant project), but wasn't really a founder, and didn't really contribute much after that first year. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago Swartz founded Infogami, which merged with reddit when they were both early stage incubator startups. In a sense, he became a founder of Not A Bug (which became the parent company of both Infogami and Reddit), but Reddit the subsidiary and project and website predates his involvement. And Reddit, the project, was a big reason why Not A Bug was acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. He provided big early contributions (migrating the code base from lisp to python was a significant project), but wasn't really a founder, and didn't really contribute much after that first year. permalink fedilink source parent
