Reddit Startup Status

The cluster focuses on Reddit's origins as a Y Combinator-funded startup, its early bootstrapping and funding by Paul Graham despite similarities to Hacker News, and debates on whether it remains a startup given its age, investments, and ownership changes.

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Goronmon • Jun 1, 2023 • View on HN

Reddit itself was bootstrapped with that.

tesseract • Apr 23, 2011 • View on HN

Reddit is not a startup anymore.

dustingetz • Nov 20, 2023 • View on HN

Yishan (former Reddit CEO) agrees: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1726525983686287534

npguy • Sep 3, 2012 • View on HN

Can someone explain to me how PG funded Reddit when it was more like a HN clone?

morgante • Jul 22, 2016 • View on HN

Wrong.Reddit has recently received substantial outside investments: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/reddit-se...

ekianjo • Sep 4, 2020 • View on HN

Because Reddit is a Ycombinator company?

dxq • Jan 3, 2011 • View on HN

I don't know, but that's how reddit got started.

criddell • May 20, 2018 • View on HN

Would Reddit still be considered a startup?

leobg • May 29, 2022 • View on HN

Any URL recommendations for reading up on Reddit’s origin story?

riffic • Dec 16, 2021 • View on HN

they were spun off a while agohttps://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/reddit-just-raised-a-new-r...