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Ohanian: Reddit launched after only three weeks of development

Alexis Ohanian · Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman · Aug 31, 2017 · at 17:17

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian discusses the rapid development timeline of Reddit prior to its launch in June 2005.

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“We actually only worked on it for about three weeks before we launched it.”

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