Reddit

“I actually, I created a GitHub profile for playback purposes, right? So just, like, we wanted an authentic looking GitHub profile. The best way to do that is just to make a GitHub profile for that person. Yeah. So I made one for Winnie and we had to populate i…”

“Much like Reddit was actually a pivot company where like it was actually applied for as something else. Like it was like food delivery stuff. Paul's like, I, yeah, Paul's like, I love you guys, Steve and Alexis, but I hate that idea.”

“From a market perspective, I don't see a world where we don't have something like that in podcasts, like a place where people can discover and engage and almost geek out about podcasts together. To date, those exist in like on Reddit to some extent and, Variou…”

“I've been angel investing for 4.5 years. I've made 50 total investments, invested in four angel funds, 47 companies, ah, only three of them were not YC companies. 46 of them were early stage. One was, ah, late stage. It's a little company called Reddit. I hope…”

“It started off as a side project and it was right between startups. I was leaving in another one and kind of tinkering and interviewing at other startups. Started product time. It started off as an email list. Got some traction there. That then turned into a w…”

“When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.”

“I think, yeah, if you're selling a developer tool, like having good docs that are out there, like having social proof, like Maybe being posted on Reddit a little bit more. All of that helps your case tremendously.”

“Like I don't have the Reddit traffic stats, but my guess is like more content was posted on Maltbook in the first two days and was posted on Reddit in like the first two years or something.”