Y Combinator founder Paul Graham was giving a talk at Harvard over spring break. The boys from Virginia were the only kids in their high school who didn't go. At the end of the talk, Alexis dragged them up to meet him and asked if he would sign their book. He agreed because they came all the way from Virginia on trains.
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.
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