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67 pointsdclaysmith6 comments

Raldi responded a year ago to how much Aaron was a "cofounder":

"Aaron Swartz founded a company called Infogami that merged with reddit to form "not a bug", so this is sort of like Steve Case calling himself a Time Warner cofounder. " http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9r8on/aaron_swar...

Alexis responds via Twitter:

ATTN @nytimes Steve Huffman & I founded @reddit. We acquired Aaron Swartz's company infogami 6mos after we launched.

https://twitter.com/#!/kn0thing/status/93374221685755904

I distinctly remember being surprised at this turn of events. It didn't seem natural, but then again I understood startup hiring was a challenge (for different reasons then versus now). I haven't heard of much YC intermerging since then.

I would be interested to hear what the current status and thinking is on the subject of YC startups merging with each other.

It happens all the time, although I think it's now more typical for successful YC startups to bring the founders of less-successful YC startups on board as early employees. Scribd was apparently formed from the merger (and reshuffling) of 3 YC startups. Slinkset merged into Posterous. I was just talking a couple months ago with a former YC founder I knew from Google about founding another startup, but he ended up signing on with an existing YC company as an early employee instead.

OTOH:

> paulgraham 45 points 4 years ago

> Aaron's not wrong to call himself one of the founders. The company behind Reddit was a merger of two startups, one that made Reddit and one that made Infogami, and in that situation the founders of both startups are considered founders of the combined company.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...

More discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781615

this thread as well http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2782059

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