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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
4 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

That's not inconsistent with the other statements.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
13 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Yeah, I've lost weight since I was fifteen. Finally, random people on the Internet say something nice about me!

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
35 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I don't think it was one of the most important events of my life.

It is still pretty odd, though. I kind of wish I could meet these people in person.

Hey -- if anyone of you live in San Francisco, you can come and make fun of me to my face. Just ask judgmentalist -- I don't bite. Email me@aaronsw.com to schedule a time.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
27 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Yeah, I certainly learned my lesson.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
6 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm sorry I'm such a bad person. If anyone wants to give me advice on how to do better, I'd love to hear it.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
24 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm sorry if I sounded haughty; I'm actually just an untalented hack who got lucky.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
26 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm very small.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
18 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Sorry, you can have the credit.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
27 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

It wasn't a cold; it was a serious illness. I spent the week lying in bed clutching my stomach, with occasional breaks to gush blood.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
19 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Did I say the predominance of women was prima facie evidence of discrimination? My recollection is that I provided actual evidence of discrimination.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
5 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm sorry you think that; I'm actually a pretty bad person with no real talent. I guess I'm so incompetent that I even failed to communicate that.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
26 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Don't blame me; I didn't vote it up.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
9 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm sorry you thought that immodest. In truth, I'm not the world's greatest programmer and most of my success has been due to luck and social incompetence.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
25 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

there does appear to be a rather long trail of abandoned or unsuccessful projects behind him.

There are and I feel bad about that, but all I really know how to do about it is learn from my mistakes and try again.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
11 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'd love to -- do you have any specific suggestions on how?

And my apologies about the lack of haircut.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
39 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Yes, there is a piece of the story you're not getting, but out of loyalty to Steve and Alexis (who I still think are great guys, although I gather they probably hate me) I'm not going to be the first to tell it.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
23 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Yeah, we were all living in the same city working on startups, spending dinners and social events together, helping each other out and giving each other advice.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
36 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

Yes, Steve and Alexis originally proposed with another idea (a cell phone-based fast food ordering system). That idea wasn't accepted (I think it was generally agreed that it was impractical to do in the YC model), so they ended up doing Reddit, an idea batted around between me and Paul and Steve and Alexis and probably some others. Steve and Alexis eventually started working on it while I declined to work on it in favor of Infogami, which I thought was more interesting. Then my co-founder left, I couldn't find an apartment, and my funding deals fell apart months into the negotiations.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
83 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I think this is a bit unfair, but in spez's defense he may not know the whole story.

I was deathly ill when I came back from Europe; I spent a week basically lying in bed clutching my stomach. I wrote a morose blog post in an attempt to cheer myself up about a guy who died. (Writing cheers me up and the only thing I could write in that frame of mind was going to be morose.) People got freaked out and misinterpreted it as a suicide note (perhaps understandably; I wasn't exactly in my right mind when I wrote it). Alexis even had the cops break into my apartment. I took it down to avoid further trouble for a while; it's back up now with some minor edits ("Alex" used to be "Aaron").

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
44 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

In my defense, I wasn't trying to be a jerk. That's not much of a defense, though.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
35 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I think this is a bit incorrect. As noted above, I was looking for either funding, a partner, or an apartment. The merger ended up getting me all three (with some give on the apartment part).

We legally merged the two companies (originally named oubliable and redbrick) into a new one, not a bug. And the original idea was that we would work on Reddit and Infogami together. For a variety of reasons, this didn't work out as we planned, although the existing Reddit is indeed built on top of some Infogami code.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
28 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm cautious about getting some guy foisted on me by the money.

Unless the guy you're worried about is PG, I don't think that's very likely. I think Steve and Alexis would agree that I wasn't "foisted" on them.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
48 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I was totally floored when he called himself one of the "founders".

One of the points of the merger was that we would all call ourselves co-founders, so that's what I've been doing. I'd be happy to stop if that's what Steve and Alexis wanted, though.

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Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz discusses how he was fired from Reddit
44 points 1 year ago by AaronSw

I'm pretty sure the story of pre-YC reddit is that Steve and Alexis were interviewing by themselves, and almost got rejected, but then came back. Aaron also entered the program separately, trying to found Infogami. He then merged with Reddit in November. WTF, man?

Yes, that's what happened. I'm sorry if what I said was confusing.

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What it's like to be the President's press secretary (themoth.org)
1 point posted 1 year ago by AaronSw comment