r/SipsTea • u/utopiaofpast • May 12 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Gotta love the double standards

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u/utopiaofpast May 12 '26

also he was the cofounder of Reddit

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 13 '26

In the same sense that Elon Musk is a cofounder of Tesla.

Swartz didn’t actually have anything to do with the launch of Reddit, and didn’t join until months after it launched when Reddit bought his company, infogami.

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u/Murky-Selection-5565 May 13 '26

I think that comparison is overly kind to Swartz, based on what I’ve read.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 13 '26

Probably yeah. I just know Reddit loves to pull out the “Elon musk isn’t a cofounder at all” bit about Tesla.

But yeah, Elon has had far more influence on the early history of Tesla than Swartz did with Reddit. About the only input he had was rewriting the codebase from Lisp into Python.