How Did You Launch Reddit?

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Reddit co-founders say their first real users were fans of Paul Graham's essays. They would beg bloggers to write about them, but most people just didn't care. In the early days there was no social networks to speak of and they had to be scrappy. "This was old school, just giving a damn to get anyone to write about us"

With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the Internet." Today, despite growing pains, personal issues and persistent trolls, Reddit has over 300 million monthly users and is valued at 1.8 billion dollars. Recorded live in San Francisco. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.