• osanna@lemmy.vg
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    8 hours ago

    Although Aaron was instrumental in reddit’s success, he wasn’t a founder. He became part of reddit after reddit merged with infogami after a year or so of reddit being founded. therefore not a founder.

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      1 hour ago

      It’s a definition thing.

      You are correct Aaron wasn’t instrumental in creating reddit (Which most would agree is a prerequisite to being considered a founder I presume.), his company got grafted to it and he was given a founder title.

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      53 minutes ago

      That’s not how that works. Famously McDonald’s and Tesla for example.