The first fundraiser was one I organized with xkcd ages ago. It raised $3K for EFF. Actually less, but I put in a few bucks to make it a pretty number. http://blog.reddit.com/2008/01/reddit-xkcd-fundraiser-pulls-in-3k-for.html

Only half? ;) I've been telling people about this for years. The most astute writers across the web have been subscribing to their 'beats' on subreddits for years. As long as they properly credit the subreddit and/or redditors involved, I've got no beef.

We built subreddits with the intent of having redditors run them. We needed people to feel that sense of ownership over something like /r/starcraft if they were going to invest the time and energy into making it awesome: http://starcraft.reddit.com

Waffle House! As I worked through three years of history and business majors, fretting over my GPA as I looked toward law school, I realized I was having more fun doing independent research on Soviet propaganda techniques than doing practice LSATs. The epiphany would finally come at a Waffle House after my friend Jack…

I like Chris. I've never used it, though. I think of it as the primordial ooze of the internet.

We ordered our first reddit servers from NewEgg, assembled them in our livingroom/office, and drove them down to a colo in Boston. It sucked. When we launched hipmunk, it was with a creditcard and Amazon account. Innovation is awesome.

Learn how to code.

We did! In fact, we were going to replace it early after launch with just a "star" or some kind of binary vote. We'd already launched with "interesting/uninteresting" (like literally just the text) and then I went through some rounds of up/down arrow designs. At that point, we'd already given users a taste of the…

I was just bored in marketing class my senior year. At this time we didn't even know how reddit would work (we also were still coming up with the name) but I really wanted a mascot for some reason. Notice how reddit, breadpig, and hipmunk all have cute mascots?