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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by rblion on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:01AM (#21137189)
TIL reddit is a YC company. I had no idea this whole time.
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by jedberg on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:43PM (#21138399)
It was the first YC company to exit (publicly, there was one from the same batch that was acquired first but wasn't made public). But then it was spun out again and recapitalized a few years later.
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by yters on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:27AM (#21137470)
In fact, isn't HN pg's version of reddit?
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by jedberg on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:44PM (#21138409)
It certainly started that way! At this point it's pretty different though. I enjoy both for different reasons.
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by killjoywashere on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:52PM (#21143480)
and HN is written in a lisp pg developed, Arc: http://arclanguage.org/
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by tlrobinson on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:19AM (#21137383)
It was literally one of the first (of 8) YC companies in 2006.
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by tyre on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:49AM (#21137755)
That batch was wild. Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, Justin Kan, Sam Altman, Aaron Swartz to name a few
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Re:Y Combinator Top Companies List 2019 by jcsnv on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:18AM (#21137381)
They were part of one of the first batches IIRC
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