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Re:Employee #1: Reddit by mkolodny on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:05PM (#12052859)
If Aaron Swartz isn't a cofounder of reddit, then Elon Musk isn't a cofounder of PayPal. [1]

Edit: As far as I can see, the situation is almost exactly the same. Elon Musk's X.com and PayPal merged into PayPal. And Aaron's Infogami and reddit merged into reddit. The only difference I see is that the reddit founders don't like Aaron being a "cofounder". If they were both mergers, then I think it's fair to call both Elon and Aaron cofounders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Early_history

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Re:Employee #1: Reddit by redthrowaway on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:09PM (#12053058)
Two points, one minor and one major:

1) Reddit and Infogami merged into Not a Bug, not reddit.

2) Musk acted as a cofounder after the merge; Swartz did not. Swartz stuck around for a couple months post-merge then disappeared. So if you want to call him a "reddit cofounder", you can only do so in the loosest terms possible. He wasn't there for the founding and he didn't put in the work, but it says "cofounder" on the company papers.

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Re:Employee #1: Reddit by hellomoto998 on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:47AM (#12055907)
> company papers

Technically correct... The best kind of correct.

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