Reddit – Trac. Aaron Swartz: How to Get a Job Like Mine. Talk, as prepared, for the Tathva 2007 computer conference at NIT Calicut.
(Additional notes.) Translations: 日本語 The American writer Kurt Vonnegut used to always title his talks "How to Get a Job Like Mine" and then proceed to talk about whatever he felt like. Photos from kn0thing. Amp; Wired Buys Reddit (Extended Ver. We told you via our new reporters’ log this morning as soon as we found out Conde Nast had bought Reddit.
Now we’ve had a chance to talk to Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian to get a few more details. He’s not spilling the price, but he tells us that Reddit broke 1 million unique visitors last month, and has 100K members (for comparison, Digg reports 20 million unique monthly visitors, though that number has been disputed). As Ohanian writes on the Reddit blog, the company felt it had to take VC funding or be acquired to deal with growth, and Conde Nast offered “about as much autonomy as an acquired company could get.” Reddit and Conde Nast have been working together for a while; they collaborated on Reddit’s first white-label service, Lipstick.com. Since then, Reddit has struck deals with WPNI (operator of washingtonpost.com, newsweek.com, and Slate) as well as Gawker.