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#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman

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How Y Combinator Helped a Company Get More Useful

Y Combinator has a rule where they don't generally bring in students who can go back to school. You either have to drop out or graduate before doing Y Combinator. With Reddit, we had Paul on our ear constantly sending emails all day being like, you know, this sucks. Some of it was good advice; some of it was bad advice. And so we got these users who would give us the benefit of the doubt. If Paul Graham is promoting us, there must be something there. So we'll hang around and tell them something is.

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