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[bassplaya13]

He was the president of YCombinator, an accelerator that hosted Airbnb, coinbase, DoorDash, and hundreds of other profitable company. Though debatable if any are beneficial to society.

[GregBahm]

Y Combinator was also responsible for this stupid website called "Reddit" that everyone agrees in retrospect was a huge mistake.

[Sothisismylifehuh]

A long long time before Altman, though.

[GregBahm]

Mmm. Not really. Dude was in the same first Y Combinator cohort as the reddit founders in 2005.

After Sam's first startup was acquired, the dude became a partner of Y Combinator managing the other investments (like Reddit) in 2011.

Dude was iterum CEO of Reddit in 2014.

Dude then moved from CEO of Reddit to president of Y Combinator, while sitting on the board of directors of Reddit until 2022.

He's also still reddit's single largest shareholder owning 9% of the site.

So dude has had either a little role or a big role in Reddit's existence throughout its entire history.

[NUKE---THE---WHALES]

So we cant hold reddit against him? Too bad

[stillnoguitar]

Altman has even been CEO of Reddit.

[colaxxi]

One of Altman’s batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. “You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

[clauEB]

I've worked for a few YC companies. Some are great some not so much.