• Paradachshund@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    These types of stories are also unfortunately heavy duty survivorship bias. The majority of people who started websites like this never went anywhere and you’ve never heard of them.

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      Which leads me on to another point - Alexis Ohanian is credited with the visual design of reddit and its marketing, which i would say are the two least important parts of the whole package. Props to him for going out on a limb to make a site like that, but this is very much an example of “…and I couldn’t have done it without my friends/colleagues.”