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prawn on March 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Y Combinator Started

And I always think that if you pitched it to anyone at the time, how many would've laughed in your face?

blafro on March 16, 2012 [–]

Can't find a link, but I think I saw somewhere that pg/YC actually pitched reddit to the reddit team because they liked the team but disliked their original idea.

prawn on March 18, 2012 | [–]

Pretty ballsy either way.

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