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Reddit mentions of We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
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We found 3 Reddit mentions of We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory. Here are the top ones.
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I'm going to try to unpack this one point at a time. I'm going to preface this with the statement that all of the below is "to my understanding", and "as best I can recall". I'm not going to keep hedging all the below statements; I'll hedge once for this entire post unless stated otherwise below. A lot of what I am putting below is stuff I've either picked up over the years, or read in this book (or found on wikipedia while writing this post)
>Reddit was supposed to be a non-profit too,
I don't think this is the case. Steve and Alexis are probably the only people who can say for certain what their goals were. To my understanding, they approached Paul Graham with a completely different idea, which got rejected from the first class of YCombinator. They were well liked by a couple of the YC folks though, despite their idea, and were told to come up with a new idea and then pitched Reddit. Now, I don't know Paul so maybe I'm off base here, but I doubt that YC gave Reddit a space (in exchange for, iirc, 10%) to create a non-profit.
>Until the founder with that vision got assed out by a couple of multimillionaire VCs with dollar signs in their eyes
Paul Graham (the "multimillion dollar VC") was involved in Reddit before Aaron was. Aaron got introduced to Reddit at YC, after Paul had already invested.
>Anything you'd like to know about archive.org, you can ask them
You're making claims about their budget (though since they're a non-profit, this is probably public info somewhere), their hardware, staff, and bandwidth; you have to back up your claims, not me.
>their engineering staff would be fully capable of creating a platform like Reddit in a matter of days, on their existing hardware,
That claim is just shenanigans. I'm going to skip over this. Short of them actually doing it, there's no way to validate this claim.
>Not counting the bloat that exists solely to milk as much profit as possible
Ah, of course. Not counting all the parts of the business that are meant to actually pay for the business to run.
>They are engineers who have worked throughout the valley tech industry, like myself, helping to create sites much bigger than reddit
Sure. Sites like Youtube, Amazon, Snap, Facebook. All much bigger than Reddit (depending on whose numbers you look at, of course). All sites with a much larger staff than Reddit has.
>I don't have much insight into reddit anymore, even though I knew the aforementioned founder
Aaron left Reddit in 2007. That's 12 years ago. Any insight you had then, was of a vastly different company. Hell, the Reddit of 5 years ago was vastly different than it is today.
>Nobody has any insight into reddit anymore
I may not know as much about the company as maybe the executives, but I like to think I have a pretty good idea what's going on there.
>I do know that they burned through about 500 million dollars this year
No you don't. You know Reddit raised money. You don't know how much of that has been spent, how much of it has been invested, how much of it is left, or how much of it is sitting in a box under my mattress, for that matter.
>and they pay their programmers better
How much does Wikimedia pay? According to glassdoor, pay is a fair bit higher at Reddit.
I am reading We Are The Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory. Its huge but makes for an awesome story. Anyone interested in learning about the birthplace of this site, inspiration for getting involved in a tech startup, or just a good read should definitely snag a copy. https://www.amazon.com/Are-Nerds-Tumultuous-Internets-Laboratory/dp/0316435376
i think we're saying similar things but yeah sorry if it wasn't clear. PG didn't come up with the idea on his own but he was definitely influential. If you're interested I really liked this book (it's a little long tho) on the story of Reddit - https://www.amazon.com/Are-Nerds-Tumultuous-Internets-Laboratory/dp/0316435376/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=reddit+book&qid=1557806676&s=gateway&sr=8-1