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• @alexisohanian Alexis Ohanian on x

  @ycombinator ... Nostalgic! This was one of my favorite PG emails of all-time. [image]

• @katmanalac Kat Mañalac on x

  From the first batch of YC to IPO day! Thanks for building something that's such a delightful part of our lives. Congrats @Reddit, @redditspez & @alexisohanian.

• @btrautschold Brian Trautschold on x

  This is one of the all-time @ycombinator & @paulg stories. Absolutely wild ability to see talent/ grit/ something? in two very young *pre*-founders

• @yuris Yuri Sagalov on x

  This is lovely. Congrats Reddit!

• @dadiomov Dimitri Dadiomov on x

  “So I called Steve and Alexis and said that we liked them, just not their idea, so we'd fund them if they'd work on something else. They were on the train home to Virginia at that point. They got off at the next station and got on the next train north, and by the end of the day..…

• @snowmaker Jared Friedman on x

  “Reddit the site (and now app) is such a fundamentally useful thing that it's almost unkillable. Which is why, despite a long stretch after Steve left when the management strategy ranged from benign neglect to spectacular blunders, traffic just kept growing. You can't do that...

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  Great read. And a throwback because Slashdot is still the page I flip open the majority of weekdays!

• @akaushik759 Abhishek Kaushik on x

  This is why I love the internet. Such heartwarming stories.

• @helloshreyas Shreyas Hariharan on x

  I went to UVA, where @alexisohanian and Steve met to start Reddit Alexis came to UVA my second year (2014) for a startup event & gave me feedback on what I was building. Shared his contact, asked me to ping him I'd just moved from India and this was pretty motivating Go Hoos

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  To celebrate Reddit's IPO, I wrote something about what made them special (and still does): https://www.ycombinator.com/ ...