But my point is that _even if_ Aaron was super, super important to the company 16 years ago (which I can't speak to), Reddit was a tiny little fledgling of what it is now. From what little I know about Reddit's history, I know that Aaron stopped working on Reddit very soon after he started and has had no contribution to the company since then.
I also do think it's interesting that the people that have worked at Reddit for years/decades all seem to have a similar opinion of the situation, and the people who haven't worked at Reddit at all are the ones that feel so strongly that Aaron is being wronged somehow.
Maybe Aaron himself was more proud of all the other things he accomplished! Saying he was an important but small part of Reddit's story is still something!
I'll pass on listening to the podcast, there are thousands of others I'd rather listen to. Thanks anyways.
The main thing is that Alexis publicly disrespected Aaron in the late 00s. It wasn't a huge deal, but obviously if he realized what he was doing, he shouldn't have. I don't blame him but neither of the two original founders of Reddit are among my favorite public figures in the tech startup scene. I like Reddit but I think what I like about it is due to the network effect and if not for them the social news landscape could easily have been either worse or better than it is today.
> If people have to listen to a podcast to hear...
birken wasn't saying that this information is only in a podcast, he's talking about a podcast because that's the article we're discussing.
He wasn't really like Facebook's other founders either. (Unlike Elon and Tesla, Zuckerberg is unquestionably a founder of Facebook.) Zuckerberg gave them too little credit, but at least one of them demanded too much credit IMO. That doesn't make it right for Zuckerberg to give them too little credit.