Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses

Re:Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The M... by gruseom on Monday July 14, 2008 @10:58PM (#246325)

I'm struck by how the sites have come to reflect the personalities of the people who founded them

It's fascinating how companies (and other creations) tend to carry the personalities of the people who started them. In our world, Microsoft, Apple, Google are good examples... one could go on endlessly. There aren't many general principles that seem to hold up as well as this one does.

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Re:Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The M... by byrneseyeview on Tuesday July 15, 2008 @11:53AM (#246757)

I don't know anything about Larry and Sergei except through what they do at Google. So it's almost a tautology that their company would reflect what I know about them. I guess Jobs is a little different, but he's still synonymous with Apple to most people.

Can you think of any business whose founder is independently famous, and who reflects your theory (e.g. a musician with a talent for improvisation, who started a company that constantly changes its business model)?

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