I Sell Onions on the Internet

Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by jedberg on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @01:30PM (#19730857)

> It's funny and beautiful how a moment of whimsy ends up being a fulcrum point in his life.

My life pivoted on a similar moment of whimsy. When I saw the post about the first startup school way back in the day, I just randomly decided "you know what, it's on the other side of the country but I'll just sign up and figure it out". Ended up flying to Boston on a super cheap flight, crashing on my friends couch who was in grad school at MIT, and meeting Steve and Alexis (of reddit), and that's how I ended up working for reddit 18 months later.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by gitgud on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:14PM (#19734348)

Wow was that when Reddit was starting out, or more recently?

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by trevorcreech on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @09:09PM (#19734669)

jedberg was the first employee at Reddit

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by jedberg on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:16PM (#19735257)

That was in 2005. I joined in 2007.

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by chasontherobot on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @09:18PM (#19734729)

jedberg is one of the original reddit peeps, he started in early 2007 I think! He is also one cool frood. Hi Jeremy!

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Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet by hguant on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @10:40AM (#19738784)

Does he keep his towel on hand?

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