Q graduated college or in college starting companies. Versus what it used to be like. I hate to sound like the old guy, you know, we're like, I don't think you're allowed to sound like the old guy. You know, remember, remember the good old days, but I think, you know, I'm curious, like from your perspective, what, what do you think has changed for the better or for the worse?
A I think it's all, almost all for the better. The, 2005, so the initial users of Reddit were mostly us with pseudonyms, but the initial real humans were a few hundred people that I'd recruited from a forum, a PHP BB forum that I ran in college called Eyes Wide, and it was a place to discuss politics and news and technology, and, and I ran this forum for fun because I just liked the idea, and There's actually an old, there's an old clip that I dug up of me talking about it, and it, you can very much hear the sort of ethos of Reddit in that discussion, or in that video, in that little monologue, uh, welcoming users to the forum. But like, those were the initial users. Just an email blast to say, hey, come join, please. And like, maybe 10 of them signed up. Um, but that was enough to sort of get things started, and then a Paul Graham essay helped launch us a month later. You know, today, Getting those first hundred, those first thousand should be table stakes. Like that, if, if you can't figure out a way to muscle in that many users, there's a deeper problem with what you're trying to solve or how you're communicating it. And, and I think that's a great thing, right? Product hunt exists. Twitter exists. Social media infrastructure that did not exist in 2005 is now so robust. People are so comfortable testing out an app, even test flight and, and, and early Access is becoming so muc…
AI assessment note: “I think it's all, almost all for the better.”