Founders, CEOs and early employees, in their own words. Pick a face, or hit shuffle.
Eric Baroneu/ConcernedApeCopy-pasted Leah's line and gave it to Elliott
Michal Kovaříku/kovarexAdmits he learns to play Factorio from players
Scott Wu/KlonanConfirmed Factorio's turbines spin the wrong way
Gabe Newellu/GabeNewellBellevueGave a Steam Deck owner his email to fix it
Tim Schaferu/TimOfLegendListed his day as president: meetings, money, t-shirt colors
Nathan Adamsu/DinnerboneRevealed Minecraft's first menu was a live world
Jens Bergenstenu/jeb_Once emailed id Software complaining about Quake 3
Charlie Clevelandu/FlayraLived off community-bought ramen for a couple of years
Brian Fargou/BrianFargoA backer offered to cover any Kickstarter shortfall
Richard Garriottu/RichardGarriottKilled as Lord British by a player named Rainz
David Craneu/PitfallCreatorPitfall fans mailed 14,000 photos of their screens weekly
Tom Fulpu/TomFulpConfirmed his message to a user wasn't automated
Alexis Ohanianu/kn0thingDoodled Snoo while bored in a college marketing class
Steve Huffmanu/spezTold how he started Reddit with his college roommate
Alan Schaafu/MrGrimLaunched Imgur as a gift to Reddit in 2009
Avery Pennarunu/apenwarrAdmitted Tailscale's family pricing was pretty wrong
Brad Fitzpatricku/bradfitzNever measured disk versus network before writing memcached
Paulus Schoutsenu/balloobStarted Home Assistant to turn on lights at dusk
Matthew Princeu/EastDakotaGot Cloudflare's first users to hand over registrar passwords
Sam Altmanu/samaltmanBrought GPT-4o back after Reddit asked for it
Sid Sijbrandiju/sytsesInvited a griping user to submit a merge request
Marco Armentu/marcoarmentFixed an Overcast bug one-handed on a train platform
Joel Spolskyu/spolskyFog Creek once owed him $50,000 in back pay
Rand Fishkinu/randfishNamed lack of focus as his biggest Moz mistake
Justin Kanu/justinkanSaid his co-founders wisely refused to wear the camera
Luis von Ahnu/vonahnFound a quarter under the couch: Duolingo's entire revenue
Stephen Wolframu/StephenWolfram-RealGot a support call from the Mir space station
Josef Průšau/josefprusaExplained why Prusa printers ship with gummy bears
Lisa Suu/AMD_LisaSuLurked in r/Amd before her first post
Palmer Luckeyu/palmerluckeyPromised no more price ballparks after the Rift
Bill Gatesu/thisisbillgatesMisses the urgency of the early Microsoft days
Elon Musku/ElonMuskOfficialAdmitted he made up his landing odds
Barbara Corcoranu/barbaracorcoranSays everyone suddenly had a $10,000 problem
Vitalik Buterinu/vbuterinPointed out he'd been on Reddit for over a decade
Eric Migicovskyu/erOheadEmailed a user about their Pebble watch face himself
Jimmy Walesu/jimmywales1Pretends he's best known as a watch model in China
Philip Rosedaleu/PhilipRosedaleSaid one player's magic wand gave him hope
Rob Maldau/CmdrTacoOpened his own AMA with "First Post."
Marcin Kleczynskiu/mkleczynskiTried a user's bug mid-AMA, then queued a fix
James Hoffmannu/kingsevenFixed an error in his coffee atlas for a reader
Swen Vinckeu/Swen_LarianSaid BG3's limits came from tabletop rules
Edmund McMillenu/EdmundMcMillenSaid Steam refunds make every game a demo
Aaron Swartzu/AaronSwJoked Paul Graham now posted under ten pseudonyms
Yishan Wongu/yishanExplained what a CEO actually does all week
Gleb Budmanu/glebbudmanSaid a Reddit AMA helped push Backblaze into B2 storage
Dave Teareu/dteare7Called himself 1Password's chief long-form emoji author
Jack Conteu/jackconteOwned up to Patreon's worst rollout in an AMA
Andy Yenu/andy1011000Explained a 60°C datacenter outage as Proton's CEO
Jesse Vincentu/obraExplained why he built Keyboardio after trying many keyboards
Mark Cubanu/mcubanTold a would-be founder to pay the bills first
Julie Uhrmanu/JulieUhrmanPromised a backer she'd fix a shipping mess that day
Mike Cannon-Brookesu/mikecannonbrookesSaid a lack of capital often means a weak idea
Kevin Roseu/thekevinRemembered hearing Reddit launch a few months after Digg
Boyan Slatu/TheOceanCleanupBoyanDeclined to debate an inanimate trash wheel
Sebastian Thrunu/sebastianthrunTold AMA readers they had just written Udacity's roadmapA redditor posted in r/StardewValley: Finally decided to marry Elliot and he immediately gives me the ick 😭
This is a mistake. He was supposed to say this if you marry Leah When I'm doing dialogues like this I will often copy and paste an entry from another data sheet first, just to get the formatting right. Then…
A redditor wrote, in r/StardewValley: Chucklefish announces their partnership with ConcernedApe is coming to a close after 8 years. I think I speak for everyone here when I say - Thank you for countless hours of work and dedication to the entire team but especially ConcernedApe.
You're right, it is my game and I ultimately take full responsibility for the delay. I hate to make excuses but there were many things outside of my control that lead to this. I have not forgotten about the mobile…
A redditor posted in r/StardewValley: Countless memes later...
Forgot about that tweet! What I meant to say is that I wouldn't be putting any "real life" references in the game. I wanted Stardew Valley to be an escape. But that isn't to say that Stardew wouldn't spawn many…
A redditor wrote, in r/nintendo: I'm ConcernedApe, creator of Stardew Valley. Ask me anything!
Programming was my least favorite part of development... my favorite was probably the art and music. Music has always been a big hobby for me, well before I even considered doing games
A redditor posted in r/StardewValley: We met Eric Barone and he’s super chill :)
hey, it was great meeting you guys! it was fun to do the doodles, my only regret is that I wish I had drawn morris' arms a little longer...
A redditor posted in r/StardewValley: I see what you did there Eric Barone
Thanks everyone, but I don't remember putting this into the game. I think this is from a mod
A redditor wrote, in r/factorio: I'm the founder of factorio - kovarex. AMA
I have seen many Factories, mainly because of bugfixing something reproducible in save that I have been provided. I have been awed many many times by the things they created. It always made me proud that people decided to spend…
A redditor posted in r/nerdcubed: Nerd³ FW - Factorio
Hello, I'm the Factorio founder, and this is the answer to all of the people comparing Factorio with modded Minecraft. I would like to make clear, that I never ever tried to hide the fact, that Modded minecraft, mainly buildcraft/industrialcraft…
A redditor wrote, in r/factorio: I'm the founder of factorio - kovarex. AMA
Hamsters. In the next major update, you will have to feed them.
A redditor wrote, in r/factorio: I'm the founder of factorio - kovarex. AMA
I agree. The goal is not to prove that I have the best and original ideas. The goal is to make a good game. Too big ego destroyed many things in the world.
A redditor posted in r/factorio: The turbines actually spin in the wrong direction. Sorry for the low framerate, I play on an old laptop. Red is direction, yellow is flow.
I looked into it... you are right... https://gfycat.com/FrightenedTepidGreatdane
A redditor posted in r/factorio: Graphical Bug in 2.1 cover art?
Fixed! Thanks for the report :)
A redditor posted in r/factorio: You can no longer buy factorio in Australia because of the steam store being priced in AUD.
Well, this is a surprise, we didn't get any email or notice from Steam. We'll try to fix it today.
A redditor posted in r/factorio: A small quality of life feature I'd love to see from the devs; please allow us to sort the mods list by enabled/disabled.
You're right, I have this problem a lot actually, I will add it to my TODO list
A redditor wrote, in r/SteamDeck: Refub Steam Deck has Screen Gap
SlappyMcD, can you email me at gaben@valvesoftware.com to see if we can't get this sorted? Sorry for the inconvenience.
A redditor wrote, in r/The_Gaben: Hi. I'm Gabe Newell. AMA.
Robin, we found the Ricochet fan.
A redditor wrote, in r/The_Gaben: Hi. I'm Gabe Newell. AMA.
That’s right. Another way to think about this, and the way we talk about this internally, is that we prefer to communicate through our products. We are all pretty devoted to reading and listening to the community - everyone here…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am a Tim Schafer, ask me about Loom! Or anything you want!
Have lots of meetings. Do interviews. More meetings. Check in on all the projects. Recruit new employees. Pitch games to publishers. Try to convince programmers not to go to Zynga. Worry about money. Think about new games. Write dialog. Decide on t-shirt colors. Make coffee.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We're Humble Indie Bundle V: creators of Psychonauts, LIMBO, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Bastion, and Humble Bundle. Ask us anything!
Linux was like a party that sounded fun we were afraid to go to because we didn't think we'd know anybody there, and the HiB guys were like your socially fearless friend who says, "Don't worry, we'll go together." And…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am a Tim Schafer, AMA!
The truth is I always act as if I didn't have to worry about profits, had all the money in the world, and no technical limits. Maybe that's why my games are considered "niche," why they go over budget, and…
A redditor posted in r/Minecraft: BIG NEWS! We have found the SEED of Minecraft's title-screen background PANORAMA!
Interesting stuff, nice work! The first title screen panorama was actually originally in-game render of a live world, with custom worldgen and the seed "splash" `100`. I would have figured this was a screenshot from that, but consider me surprised…
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: "For those of you who don't know why the API is taking so long: it's like rebuilding the engines of a jet in the middle of a long flight" @Dinnerbone
You overestimate how many people there are working on Minecraft. There are currently 5 developers on the Minecraft PC team: - Jeb - Myself, creator of Bukkit - (pretty much) all your server mods are using this - Grum, also…
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: a QR code hidden in the snow leads to 1.9 announcement
I hoped this would go unnoticed until after april fools. It is not a joke.
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: I am Dinnerbone, a Minecraft developer. Ask Me Absolutely Anything.
... Huh. I never thought about this. I'll bring it up with the team :)
A redditor wrote, in r/ChoosingBeggars: Different kind of CB (yes, I answered the questions, it was mandatory after all! ;) )
I did this too. Sent an email to id Software complaining about Quake 3 and got a response in the lines of "Those are some interesting ideas." They were obviously not impressed ;)
A redditor wrote, in r/Minecraft: Can't Run Minecraft, Made My Own.
We are very defensive when it comes to Minecraft, as it's our game and trademark, but we do not try to prevent people from making their own games. In the end it's more important that players have fun, even if it's not our game they're playing.
A redditor posted in r/Minecraft: Twitter / jeb_: With the help of reddit and ...
Some more info: I liked Shale / Seashale, but this isn't shale and maybe we want to add actual shale in the future. I liked Neptone / Nepton, but I want to avoid referencing Roman mythology (Neptune) if possible. Same…
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Natural Selection 2 "Gorgeous Update" Trailer
Thanks mate. I lived off community-bought ramen for a couple years, then more of us lived off community-preorders for a couple more. Now we're profitable with a bright future. Thanks to you!
A redditor posted in r/ns2: Does anyone know if there is going to be any kind of metagame in NS2 (leveling up, unlockables, ect)?
Most likely not. We're not big fans of that stuff. We'd rather make the game as awesome as possible and have THAT be the reason people keep playing. Not interested in figuring out ways to enslave people to their computer just to unlock crap.
A redditor posted in r/subnautica: Giant Reefback, now with seamoth for scale
Beautiful shot! One thing I've learned after watching all these people play our game - you guys love big hulking creatures. We will add more. -Designer of Subnautica
A redditor posted in r/subnautica: Subnautica to release on the Epic Games Launcher for free
Yeah Epic just approached us with an offer that was too good to refuse. It's a risk of course but it \seems\ like most of the players on the Epic store don't even have Steam. They are Fortnite players, many…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are the leads on Wasteland 2 (currently the #1 PC game), the godfather of the post-apocalyptic fallout series. Brian Fargo, Matt Findley and Chris Keenan here to discuss all things crowdfunding, game-making, and escaping the grasp of publishers.
The first day we launched I had a 10k backer send me a private message that if we came up short he would fund the difference. It was then I knew it was going to happen. I'll never forget that day.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: RPG Fireside Chat with Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone AMA
I was actually inspired by this from a former neighbor who wrote me an email during Kickstarter thanking me for spending time talking to him about games as a kid. He waxed poetic about how nice that was and that…
A redditor posted in r/Wasteland: Brian Fargo on creating Wasteland and Fallout, crowdfunding of Wasteland 2, and inspirations for Clockwork Revolution
That is an AI pretending to interview me, must have pulled other interviews and maybe my speech in Croatia. The grammar is horrendous, I hope people don’t think it’s me.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I’m Richard Garriott aka Lord British, creator of the Ultima franchise, Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar, and private astronaut. AMA about my new book "Explore/Create"!
Oh, so well! It was at the end of the Beta, giving a speech in Trinsic, a person named RAINZ cast a fire field around me. I thought I was immortal... but I had forgotten to set the immortality flag months previously.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I’m Richard Garriott aka Lord British, creator of the Ultima franchise, Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar, and private astronaut. AMA about my new book "Explore/Create"!
The summer I learned to play D&D, the group that introduced me to it made up nicknames for everyone else... They thought I had a British accent, which I don't, but since I WAS born in England the nickname for my characters became British, and then Lord British!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Richard “Lord British” Garriott, creator of the Ultima franchise and Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar. AMA.
It was a sales related decision. Ultima VIII was the only Ultima to sell less than its predecessors. Assuredly due to it being rushed out, incomplete and buggy. Had we done our jobs correctly. Had I made the right decision. It would have been fine.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAM David Crane, creator of Pitfall! and co-founder of Activision.
I don't know the numbers of patches given, but at one point Pitfall was receiving 14,000 submissions per week with photos of their screens. We had a department of 10 people answering letters.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAM David Crane, creator of Pitfall! and co-founder of Activision.
In those days a game was made by one person. I did every pixel of graphics, every sound effect, and wrote every line of code. But that was then. Now, game artists can draw much better than I can. Music…
u/PitfallCreator posted in r/IAmA: IAM David Crane, creator of Pitfall! and co-founder of Activision.
How many times have I played Pitfall? Thousands. The way to make a game fun is to play it over and over, tweaking the smallest game play element until it is perfect.
A redditor posted in r/Newgrounds: Tom Fulp private messaged me, is this automated
It was actually me!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Tom Fulp, creator of Newgrounds.com and co-founder of the Behemoth.
Rookie mistake... When you play your own game a lot you don't realize how hard it is for everyone else. But there was also a lot of stuff that was hard due to poor implementation, or "bad hard" as opposed…
A redditor posted in r/Newgrounds: Found this on my stepdads roku, haven’t heard anything about this before. Anyone know anything about it?
I actually developed that app back in 2011. It ran for many years but after some big SDK updates I think it no longer works on the Roku OS and would need to be rebuilt. https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1272348
A redditor wrote, in r/incremental_games: The fall of Kongregate has left a cavity in the community. Let's talk about what we can do to fill it. here's my take.
An Idle / Incremental category was long overdue so we got that going yesterday and I updated the genre details on a bunch of games: https://www.newgrounds.com/games/browse/genre/idle-incremental/sort/score As far as some of the other suggestions in this thread, a microtransactions API…
A redditor wrote, in r/pics: I told the student who drew me(the math teacher) yesterday that her pic went viral on reddit and she drew this today as a thank you to you all.
As Snoo's creator, it makes me so happy to see fan-art, especially really good fan-art like this. After all, I created Snoo while I was bored in class. There's a great tradition of doodling while bored in class. Maybe you'll be working here one day!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAmAlexis Ohanian, startup founder, internet activist, and cat owner - AMA
Thank you. But to be fair, this thing has grown far beyond what Steve and I started in that Medford apartment with. Sure, we can take credit for starting the planter box, tilling the soil, adding seeds, and watering, etc…
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: What's the story behind the Reddit alien?
Steve and I knew we were doing something community-news-related for Y Combinator (at that point, we were still finishing college and hadn't moved to Boston for YC). I was hellbent on having a mascot, because I wished more websites had…
A redditor posted in r/mildlyinteresting: Found an old broken car with an old Reddit sticker on my hike in Croatia.
THAT is a vintage sticker. Nice find. I remember making those. Disappointed it didn't hold up as well as the Apple sticker...
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: CEOs of reddit, how did you get there?
I started Reddit with my college roommate of four years, Alexis Ohanian (u/kn0thing), immediately after graduation in 2005. Not having a big vision for the company, we more or less went with the flow, building whatever we felt like each…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of reddit. AMA.
Absolutely. Shadowbanning is for spammers. I created it ten years ago when we were in an arms race with automated spambots, which still attack us constantly. I want it to be as difficult as possible for the spammers to know…
My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I created Imgur. AMA.
Imageshack tried to buy it 6 months after I made it. Glad I didn't sell... Imgur is now bigger than they are, as well as yfrog which is by the same company.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Alan, and I created Imgur. AMA!
image-er
A redditor posted in r/Tailscale: Any plans for affordable family plan ?
[tailscale employee here] Yeah, we realize our pricing for friends-and-family use is pretty wrong. It's not that we're so bad at pricing, but rather that the software core doesn't make collaboration very easy yet, so we can't launch the plans…
A redditor posted in r/Tailscale: hello.ipn.dev security
Actually the reason for the auto-added server on new network is to prevent a chicken-and-egg problem: after you install just one node, how do you know it's workng? If you install two nodes and they can't talk to each other…
A redditor posted in r/Tailscale: Tailscale is down?
Hmm, we aren't aware of any reason tailscale.com should have appeared down earlier today. We had one downtime incident for about an hour last weekend (our first! Postmortem coming soon). The reliability is generally pretty high. One thing we're proud…
A redditor wrote, in r/programming: Non-volatile Storage: No longer true that CPUs are significantly more performant and more expensive than I/O devices
Amusing in retrospect: I never even measured the speed of the disk vs the network when I wrote memcached. I just knew the disks were so damn slow and the root of all our performance problems, so the network couldn't…
A redditor posted in r/Tailscale: I can't login to my account, horrible experience after using Tailscale for 2 years
Whoops. Thanks for the report. That code was just refactored and a bug was introduced that only affected old GitHub accounts. (the bug was when certain lazy migrations happened) A fix is rolling out now.
A redditor posted in r/Tailscale: Someone just randomly joined my Tailnet
Tailscalar here. Yeah, this sucks. We’re working on changing the identity model. (how users/domains/tailnets all map to each other) When we first started, we were trying to make it easy for companies to sign up and start working with their…
A redditor wrote, in r/Android: Gingerbread, AKA android 2.3 is out
Yeah, I'm particularly excited about StrictMode. (but I'm also the author of it :)) StrictMode (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/StrictMode.html) is not about unnecessarily using network or CPU but about doing it on the correct thread (and it's about network or disk, not CPU)…
A redditor wrote, in r/programming: Python home automation
Creator here. How it compares to openHAB? The projects have similar goals. OpenHAB is more mature, has more functionality and has a community. When I started this project I never intended to challenge openHAB. Home Assistant started out as a…
A redditor posted in r/homeassistant: Voice assistants: Assist vs Alexa/Google
I (the founder of Home Assistant) would say that Assist is not yet ready yet to replace Alexa/Google. There are still a couple of things we need to solve before we hit that bar. Some of which we discussed at…
A redditor wrote, in r/homeassistant: Why is everyone german?
Small correction. I am Dutch, but I started Home Assistant while living in San Diego, California :-)
A redditor posted in r/homeautomation: eWeLink official Home Assistant add-on released.
Founder of Home Assistant here. This add-on is a big hack and I would not recommend using it. Home Assistant does not have an API to provide entities in Home Assistant. We don't have this because we don't want vendors…
A redditor posted in r/homeassistant: People talk a lot about "wife approval factor" but legitimately, how can we make smarthomes more accessible and what can we do to give our significant others more control?
With Home Assistant we use the term Home Approval Factor. It captures everyone in the house including spouse, kids, visitors, pets, etc. I wrote about it in the official newsletter: https://building.open-home.io/open-home-approval-factor/#home-approval-factor
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, AMA
CloudFlare was born, in part, out of Project Honey Pot (http://www.projecthoneypot.org), an open source project that Lee (@icqheretic) and I started 10+ years ago. CloudFlare's first users were Project Honey Pot members. Our first email to them asked for a…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, AMA
Lee Holloway, one of my co-founders, was the technical genius behind CloudFlare and wrote the vast majority of the code. I built the first version of our front end and some other random bits of code along the way. The…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew Prince, AMA
Everyone thought we were crazy. "You're going to get people to switch their DNS to you, route their traffic through you, and you're going to do it by shipping equipment to locations around the world?! You're nuts." I saw someone…
A redditor wrote, in r/ChatGPT: GPT-5 AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and some of the GPT-5 team
ok, we hear you all on 4o; thanks for the time to give us the feedback (and the passion!). we are going to bring it back for plus users, and will watch usage to determine how long to support it.
A redditor wrote, in r/OpenAI: AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, Michelle Pokrass, and Hongyu Ren
yes, we are discussing. i personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy; not everyone at openai shares this view, and it's also not our current highest priority.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Sam Altman, reddit board member and President of Y Combinator. AMA
I receive about 1200 and send about 200. When people ask me what my job entails I just say "email".
A redditor wrote, in r/ChatGPT: AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, and Mark Chen
sometimes, yes. can you tell?
A redditor posted in r/singularity: RIP jimmy apples.
agi has been achieved internally (EDIT obviously this is just memeing, y’all have no chill! when agi is achieved it will not be announced with a reddit comment…)
A redditor posted in r/ProgrammerHumor: [gitlab] Nice, v 7.0.0 breaks my workflow...
GitLab B.V. CEO here, feel free to submit a merge request to fix this.
A redditor wrote, in r/gitlab: GitHub being acquired by M$? Good or bad news for GitLab?
Awesome, I started https://twitter.com/movingtogitlab a few hours ago while driving as a passenger, amazing how fast things can go.
A redditor wrote, in r/OvercastApp: Bug Hit List
Do you have any older copies of the app that are syncing with your account? On an old iPad or Watch, maybe? This issue should be completely resolved as of a few versions ago. Here's a photo of when I…
A redditor posted in r/overcast: Never seen datacenter infra?!?
Because we were leasing dedicated servers, not managing the physical hardware ourselves. When we started Tumblr (2006), we ran it from a single dedicated server at Rackspace that David already had from consulting work. (It was $800/month. Rackspace was expensive…
A redditor wrote, in r/overcast: Accidental Data Centre
The datacenter offered me a forklift. I laughed.
A redditor posted in r/pics: Great Scott!
I took this picture, and you've stolen it without credit. Original, posted yesterday: http://instagr.am/p/JQdb6/ Thanks a lot.
A redditor posted in r/overcast: Nitpicky Details Feature Request: Chime when skipping a chapter
I actually hired a sound designer recently to solve exactly this problem. Soon.
A redditor wrote, in r/overcast: 2026.7.1 released: Higher speeds, Watch audio effects, and major fixes!
"thanx, ur pretty cool too", to quote a note Libby passed me in 9th-grade math class after I said I liked her, which completely paralyzed me and I had no idea what to do next so I did absolutely nothing (sorry Libby)
A redditor posted in r/programming: 5 Reasons Why Joel's Business (Probably) Isn't Like Yours
All more or less correct, except that we didn't have very much money to start Fog Creek. I had enough savings that I could go for 2 years without salary. At the lowest point, Fog Creek owed me personally $50,000…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAmA co-founder of Stack Exchange and Fog Creek Software, Joel Spolsky
Rolex watches cheap: http://joelonsoftware.com/
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAmA co-founder of Stack Exchange and Fog Creek Software, Joel Spolsky
I don't care if someone has a computer science degree... I don't think it is much of a predictor of programming ability.
A redditor wrote, in r/bigseo: Howdy /r/BigSEO, I'm Rand Fishkin, cofounder of Moz; AMA
LACK OF FOCUS. I should have kept Moz focused entirely on core SEO software, and not tried to diversify into social media and content marketing and brand tracking and all these other businesses. That was dumb, and it really hurt…
A redditor posted in r/DigitalMarketing: What has you salary progression been in your career?
Love this question, and appreciate folks sharing so transparently! I started in digital marketing in 2003; my salary progression: * ~2003-2007: SEO specialist - $16-18K/year (startup, so some months we couldn't afford to pay me) * 2007-2012: CEO - $120K…
A redditor wrote, in r/gamedev: Just raised $2.15M; please steal our game studio funding model and pitch deck
Sure! I started a company called Moz a long time ago (2003) with my mom as cofounder. It eventually turned into a software business, raised VC, and then went sideways (as 95% of VC-backed companies do). When I left in…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Justin Kan, cofounder of Twitch (world's biggest live-streaming platform). I've been a serial entrepreneur, technology investor at Y Combinator and now my new fund Goat Capital. AMA!
They were not stupid enough to volunteer to wear the camera around 24/7.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Justin Kan, cofounder of Twitch (world's biggest live-streaming platform). I've been a serial entrepreneur, technology investor at Y Combinator and now my new fund Goat Capital. AMA!
My happiness is directly correlated with hair length (and thus is at an all time high). I'd say that post-selling Twitch I wasn't super happy. I had been chasing after an extrinsic goal (becoming a successful founder) for so long…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Justin Kan, cofounder of Twitch (world's biggest live-streaming platform). I've been a serial entrepreneur, technology investor at Y Combinator and now my new fund Goat Capital. AMA!
I was a shitty self taught programmer.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAmA scientist and entrepreneur named Luis von Ahn. I’m the CEO/co-founder of Duolingo, a totally free way to learn languages. I won’t rest until people stop paying for crappy language learning software. I also developed CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, those squiggly characters all over the web -- sorry! AMA
The other day we found a quarter under the couch. I think that's the entirety of our revenue so far.
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: Has anyone here completed a language in Duolingo? How well versed in the language were you, by the end?
I'm biased because I'm the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo :) But, I'd say it worked very well for me in learning Portuguese. When I had done about half the course, I went to Brazil to give a talk about…
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: What are the best websites for NOT wasting your time?
I made a site called Duolingo. It's free language education for the world! We think it's good for not wasting your time :) The subreddit is /r/duolingo. Edit: Thanks for the gold!!!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAmA scientist and entrepreneur named Luis von Ahn. I’m the CEO/co-founder of Duolingo, a totally free way to learn languages. I won’t rest until people stop paying for crappy language learning software. I also developed CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, those squiggly characters all over the web -- sorry! AMA
Because they don't motivate you to keep going! We spend a lot of effort making Duolingo addictive -- we think the hardest part about learning anything on your own is motivation.
A redditor posted in r/AskReddit: Reddit do you know any other websites I could visit while you are down? Or fun websites in general?
I helped make this site :) http://duolingo.com It feels like playing a game but instead of crushing candy you're learning languages.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Stephen Wolfram (Mathematica, NKS, Wolfram|Alpha, ...), Ask Me Anything
There are so many; very hard to pick just one. An old one for Mathematica: Mike Foale was using it on the Mir space station; there was an accident; the computer it was on got sucked into space; Mike had…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I Am Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research & Creator of the Wolfram Language, Mathematica & Wolfram|Alpha
I have to say that I've been "working from home" for most of my working life (i.e. 40+ years). I've had some fine offices to go to, but somehow I always end reverting to working at home. It's not that…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I Am Stephen Wolfram, Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research & Creator of the Wolfram Language, Mathematica & Wolfram|Alpha
The most useful thing by far that I have is a good email archive, going back 30 years, and well searchable. Also an OCR'ed archive of pretty much every piece of paper in my life. As far as data goes…
A redditor posted in r/prusa3d: Ok, I give... why Gummy Bears?
We started with chocolate which didn’t ship too well 😅 next were Hariboes which everyone instantly loved. The rest is history 🫶
A redditor wrote, in r/3Dprinting: Original Prusa i3 MK2 (kit) up and printing! Will post print picture soon!
Well, I am really sorry but this is the lame version of the frog, which accidentally slipped into the Driver package and also to our SD duplicator. This is fixed in 1.7.1 drivers, so install them and copy a new…
A redditor posted in r/prusa3d: Prusa big volume printer ?? Do you think it is comming?
No some lab memeber put mk3 into an cube frame. Sorry guys, we wouldn’t be having prototypes in the public lab ...
A redditor posted in r/Amd: IT'S HAPPENING! AMD CPU division will host an AMA about Ryzen: March 2 @ 11:30a-4:00p CST. Dr. Lisa Su from 11:30a-12:30p!!
Hi everyone, I've been lurking for awhile, decided to post for the first time today. Looking forward to having you all join my AMA on Thursday.
A redditor wrote, in r/Amd: We are AMD, creators of Athlon, Radeon and other famous microprocessors. We also power the Xbox One and PS4. Today we want to talk RYZEN, our new high-speed CPU five years in the making. We're celebrating with giveaways, and you can ask us anything! Special guest: AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.
It's incredibly busy but the excitement is fantastic. Our engineers love seeing their products in the market. There are lots of quirky Ryzen-related stories... but the most fun I have is visiting the labs each time we get new silicon…
A redditor wrote, in r/Amd: We are AMD, creators of Athlon, Radeon and other famous microprocessors. We also power the Xbox One and PS4. Today we want to talk RYZEN, our new high-speed CPU five years in the making. We're celebrating with giveaways, and you can ask us anything! Special guest: AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.
Golf and drinking good red wine! :-)
A redditor wrote, in r/Amd: We are AMD, creators of Athlon, Radeon and other famous microprocessors. We also power the Xbox One and PS4. Today we want to talk RYZEN, our new high-speed CPU five years in the making. We're celebrating with giveaways, and you can ask us anything! Special guest: AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su.
Our Ryzen hoodies have become popular since Raja has modeled them on twitter... we are looking for a way to get them to our fans... stay tuned. :-)
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift. AMA!
Repeating my other answer, but no more ballparks from me for now. I learned my lesson - I usually try to underpromise and overdeliver, and I need to hold myself to that better in the future.
A redditor wrote, in r/pcmasterrace: I am Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus and designer of the Rift virtual reality headset. AMA!
I have lived on the bleeding edge of PC hardware for as long as I could scrape the money together, but for VR, I am sticking to hardware that sticks to our recommended specs: https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/ That way, I get the…
A redditor wrote, in r/oculus: Mr. Palmer, I know you're reading these threads. Come on, man. We're your base. Talk to us
Not really. Don't shunt blame to other people, this is my call. I am not going to wax poetic about this, since I have done so in the past, but bottom-line: I won't give in-depth updates on any situation without…
A redditor posted in r/oculus: Oculus Software and VR applications must be stored in C:\ drive
This is near the very top of our roadmap, but other features took priority for launch. Getting this working is non-trivial for a lot of reasons, but we will be getting it out ASAP. In the meanwhile, we are going…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.
There was a certain urgency to everything we were doing to stay ahead that meant the speed of activity was very high. I miss this a bit. I had to take Think Weeks twice a year just to step back…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.
I would explain that smartness is not single dimensional and not quite as important as I thought it was back then. I would say you might explore the developing world before you get into your forties. I wasn't very good…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ask Me Anything.
I do make myself tomato soup sometimes. It is kind of a comforting food and reminds me of doing the same when I was growing up. I don't make sandwiches much.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA!
I pretty much made that up. I have no idea :) The grid fins are super important for landing with precision. The aerodynamic forces are way too strong for the nitrogen thrusters. In particular, achieving pitch trim is hopeless. Our atmosphere is like molasses at Mach 4!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Barbara Corcoran of ABC’s Shark Tank. Prior to Shark Tank I achieved impressive straight Ds in High School before turning a $1000 loan into The Corcoran Group. Ask me anything!
Wealth complicates things. I’m not really sure who my real friends are now… and so I keep my original circle small. When I cashed out on my business, everybody I knew suddenly had a $10,000 problem. But I’m not giving the money back.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Barbara Corcoran of ABC’s Shark Tank. Prior to Shark Tank I achieved impressive straight Ds in High School before turning a $1000 loan into The Corcoran Group. Ask me anything!
The great thing about being a stupid student, is you have the whole damn day to day dream. And day dreaming, about who you want to be, is a heck of a lot more useful than a rock-solid business plan.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Barbara Corcoran of ABC’s Shark Tank. Prior to Shark Tank I achieved impressive straight Ds in High School before turning a $1000 loan into The Corcoran Group. Ask me anything!
Pissing away money on patents and PR. The right dance steps are: 1) make the product 2) get some sales 3) make the big guys envy you and only then get a patent. But what gets in the way of…
A redditor posted in r/CryptoCurrency: Vitalik Buterin is Considering Reddit as an Alternative to Twitter for Himself After the Implementation of the Blue Checkmark Monthly Fee
"Considering"? I've been on reddit for over a decade!
A redditor posted in r/ethtrader: The origin of ETH is quite strange
It was a joke. Or rather, that experience with WoW that I had was 100% real, but the idea that the WoW experience specifically led to a decade-long bloodlust against centralization is a joke.
A redditor posted in r/pebble: Anyone else get an email from "Eric Migicovsky" about their watch face?
Haha, yes this was me. No scam, just wanted to customize the PebbleEye 007 face for a friend :)
A redditor posted in r/pebble: Target's Pebble Time clearance- What does it mean?
Happy to share the answer. An error was made as Target set up for a new Pebble point of purchase (POP) display that will be launching in Target stores in October. One hundred Target stores received incorrect instructions to reprice…
A redditor wrote, in r/pebble: Why Pebble Failed
Notice it had nothing to do with VCs. Our VC was absolutely not the problem here. And again maybe I didn't make it perfectly clear but I would not have changed anything. At the time it was very logical to…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia and as of this week I am the founder of WikiTribune AMA!
Hahaha. A few years ago a watch company surprised me by asking me to be a model in their advertisements. The ads did very well in China for some reason. In my internal fantasy land, I like to pretend that…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia now trying a totally new social network concept WT.Social AMA!
I am a structure purist. A hotdog is not a sandwich. I accept that there are other viewpoints in the world and I can live together with them harmoniously. I may not invite them back to the 4th of July…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia now trying a totally new social network concept WT.Social AMA!
Well, it's short and memorable at least. It's short for "WikiTribune Social" which was just a long thing to type and maybe not so memorable. I don't know. Hard to find a great domain name these days.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and High Fidelity. Ask me anything about immersive spatial audio, VR, and virtual worlds...
I don't know what happened to Starax, but I can certainly say that his Wand was one of the coolest things I had ever seen, and it gave me real hope that Second Life was going to make it. His…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life and High Fidelity. Ask me anything about immersive spatial audio, VR, and virtual worlds...
I'll be working on virtual worlds in one form or another until I die. I'd like to see a physics/simulation model that creates some sort of low-level digital 'atoms' that are used to build everything, using a decentralized compute model.
u/CmdrTaco posted in r/IAmA: IAM Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Founder of Slashdot, AMA.
First Post.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAM Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Founder of Slashdot, AMA.
'First Post' was actually really irritating to me, because there would be a dozen or more of them on many articles. This made the REAL discussion a significant hunk of scroll away to read. A number of users wrote bots…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAm Marcin Kleczynski, founder and CEO of Malwarebytes. AMA.
Nope, I just tried it and I'm annoyed. Off the to development queue it goes.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAm Marcin Kleczynski, founder and CEO of Malwarebytes. AMA.
You're welcome! I worked at a computer shop where we reformatted every. Single. Machine. I couldn't take it anymore.
A redditor posted in r/technology: Malwarebytes is now blocking compromised IP ranges from imgur.
Marcin from Malwarebytes here! I'm looking into it personally.
A redditor posted in r/JamesHoffmann: Error in The World Atlas of Coffee?
🤦♂️ Thank you - we’ll make sure this is fixed in future print runs!
A redditor posted in r/JamesHoffmann: Hoffmann aiden review
Once we got it into the edit, I realised I hadn’t done a great job. We’ve reshot it now, and so shouldn’t be too long.
A redditor posted in r/espresso: Mr. Hoffman, you’ve ruined me
This Hoffman guy sounds like a dick... Also - the noise is slightly less awful if you keep the wand in the "stretching" position where it is pulling air in throughout the entire process.
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Larian Studios | Divinity AMA
We had all the freedom we needed on BG3 but the game was based on 5e which is a system that was made for tabletop, not for video games. Most of the limitations came from that.
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Larian Studios | Divinity AMA
Least favourite: Answering questions about AI. Favourite:All the rest :)
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Larian Studios | Divinity AMA
We were 411 people at the end of BG3 and have around 500 people working on Divinity now. Our teams evolve in function of the games we try to make and what we think the size of the market is…
A redditor wrote, in r/Games: Mewgenics Gameplay Reveal!
we dont have time to make a demo that will actually make the best parts of the game shine in the time we have left. its a game you can watch a stream of and instantly know if its for…
u/EdmundMcMillen wrote, in r/gaming: Edmund McMillen here, creator of The Binding of isaac, Super Meat Boy and the upcoming Mewgenics! AMA!
in all honesty though, i always thought of everyone playing the game as isaacs purgatory, i liked the idea of keeping him in a state of limbo via people replaying his final thoughts in game.
A redditor posted in r/reddit.com: What reddit looked like in July 25, 2005.
Wow, so much has changed... Paul Graham now posts under 10 psuedonyms instead of just one!
A redditor posted in r/explainlikeimfive: ELI5: What does a CEO of a large company do in a "typical" week, and why is he (usually he) paid so much?
I am not the CEO of a large company, I am the CEO of a rather small company, but maybe this answer will be helpful: There is no "typical" week, as my job is a non-specialized function. Thus, I typically…
A redditor wrote, in r/TheoryOfReddit: Reddit is a corporate investment and we are the product. Should we care? A quick review and some implications.
Hi. I am the CEO and I also sit on the board. I will make that promise right now: we will not sell reddit. I'm a long-time user, and I saw what happened to digg. I'm also someone who worked…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAm Yishan Wong, the Reddit CEO
/r/yishansucks Although I am disappointed. There has been a severe drop in good content being submitted to that subreddit over the past few weeks.
A redditor posted in r/IAmA: IamArnold. AMA 2.0.
Hi Arnold. Thanks for coming back. I just want to mention that we have an opening for a full-time position on our community team. We offer competitive salary and benefits, and one of our perks includes up to $500 reimbursable…
A redditor posted in r/sysadmin: Backblaze takes on Amazon S3 with dirt-cheap data storage for developers
3 years ago we did an AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/rhrt4/we_are_the_team_that_runs_online_backup_service/? That conversation was part of the motivation to open up our cloud storage to everyone. Thank you for you help and thoughts, and we've love to know how you might use Backblaze B2 cloud storage.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We are the team that runs online backup service Backblaze. We've got 25,000,000 GB of cloud storage and open sourced our storage server. AUA.
Glad you love it! I think it's a strength, but one of the things we get most often commented on as being a weakness is the inability to pick and choose files and folders for backup. When we started the…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: We're The Backblaze Cloud Team (Managing 750+ Petabytes of Cloud Storage) - Back 7 Years Later - Asks Us Anything!
When we started 12 yrs ago we thought "SSDs should be a viable replacement for HDDs in a couple years." Recently we were again saying the same thing again. SSDs are still 10x more expensive on a per-GB basis. They…
A redditor wrote, in r/1Password: We’re the team behind the new 1Password Browser Experience, Ask Us Anything! 🎙
Thanks for reaching out with an incredibly interesting question. 🤗 I’m certainly the chief long-form emoji-laden author here. 😂 I really enjoyed seeing the way you framed your question and customer support is near and dear to my heart so…
A redditor wrote, in r/1Password: We’re the team behind the new 1Password Browser Experience, Ask Us Anything! 🎙
I'm sorry we pissed you off, Nixon506E. It certainly wasn't our intent. 💙 In all honesty I haven't used the share sheet in years and the same can be said for most of our team. The share sheet was cutting…
A redditor wrote, in r/1Password: 1Password 8 for Windows is here! 🎉
Welcome aboard! 🙌🏻 I'll leave the Ethereum gifts to /u/_roustem and stick to Reddit Gold for my gifts. 😃 ++dave;
A redditor wrote, in r/AMA: Hi I'm Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, Ask Me Anything.
hi, yes, i hear you, this was bad communication, and i own up to that. The team owns up to that, too. Before getting into more specifics, i just want to make it clear that this is our top priority…
A redditor posted in r/Music: My college-roommate with an ironic beard just released his Daft Punk / Skrillex remix
hey dudes - jack here. just to clear things up, my beard is not ironic. i'm ACTUALLY lazy about shaving, and when my girlfriend is gone, there's no one to tame the animal. so yeah, no irony there. that's a straight up lazy beard.
A redditor wrote, in r/AMA: Howdy Reddit. I'm Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon.
oh, i freaking LOVE this question. I think about this a lot. i have a few suggestions. 1) when you're feeling inspired, don't quit till it's finished. when paul mccartney started feeling inspired and writing a song, he made a…
A redditor posted in r/ProtonMail: Frankfurt datacenter rn
It was not quite this bad, but air temperatures inside the facility reached 50-60C according to our monitoring. That's enough to start killing multi-million euro server racks with powerful CPUs, GPUs, etc, just like an actual fire would. On site…
A redditor posted in r/ProtonMail: When is 2 year unlimited plan coming back?
2 year plans have been phased out for most products, but if you are an existing user on a two year plan, you are grandfathered. Even though it makes our life super painful due to the sheer number of plan…
A redditor wrote, in r/ProtonMail: What should we rename Proton Unlimited to?
I get the sentiment, but we're not going to be going for this one...
A redditor wrote, in r/MechanicalKeyboards: [deleted by user]
First up, a bit of hyperbole is sort of the norm in marketing videos. Second up, I wasn't really exaggerating. Keyboards are a very personal thing and there was nothing that actually felt good to me. The M15 was probably…
A redditor posted in r/programming: The *definitive* guide to the language wars.
I'm so glad redditors like the shirt I made :) I suppose we should do another run of them some time. Would folks buy them if we did?
A redditor posted in r/Android: With negative reviews of the Xoom from Ars, Engadget and TechRadar, what do redditors think of their new toy?
I bought a Xoom last weekend. It was my...10th tablet. (Hi, I'm Jesse and I'm a Gadget Addict) It feels much like the iPad did on launch day. Sure, it can run all the regular apps I know and love…
A redditor wrote, in r/wallstreetbets: Hey everyone, Its Mark Cuban. Jumping on to do an AMA.... so Ask Me Anything
First, find a job to pay your bills. Got to take care of the basics. Then get back after it. Just remember, its not in the dreaming, its in the doing
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: Hey Reddit, we are OUYA! Founder/CEO Julie Uhrman, Head of Developer Relations Kellee Santiago, and OUYA Games Guy Bob "BAWB" Mills. Ask us anything!
Ahh, honestly we fix this. If it's our mess up you don't suffer... hit me up -- I guarantee you can figure out my email and I'll sort it today.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IamA Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian AMA
Most important truths they're afraid to express? Good question. 1. Often (but not always - often) people complaining they "can't raise money because of a lack of capital" are really saying they "can't raise money because their idea or team…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg. AMA!
A few months after Digg launched I remember hearing about reddit launching, I went to check out the site and I can't recall if I signed up or not... I think my first account was a couple years ago.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg. AMA!
Having built Digg, I have a pretty thick skin, this thread is pretty tame actually.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I am Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg. AMA!
I'm new to this reddit thing.
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Boyan Slat, the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. We've just shown we can now clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for $7.5B. AMA!
I generally don't engage in conversations with inanimate objects. PS Much appreciate the pioneering role they played and every river other people are tacking is a win for the planet!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: I'm Boyan Slat, the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. We've just shown we can now clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for $7.5B. AMA!
Good question! Currently reading "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flyvbjerg which includes the amazing stat that historically just 0.5% of megaprojects have been delivered on time/quality/budget which is totally insane. With our cost calculations we produced high and…
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAM Sebastian Thrun, Stanford Professor, Google X founder (self driving cars, Google Glass, etc), and CEO of Udacity, an online university empowering students!
Wow - I love this thread. Thanks for the many suggestions - and keep them coming. You just wrote the roadmap for Udacity!
A redditor wrote, in r/IAmA: IAM Sebastian Thrun, Stanford Professor, Google X founder (self driving cars, Google Glass, etc), and CEO of Udacity, an online university empowering students!
Do it often. Coding is a skill like riding a bike. If you have a choice between coding and reading a book about coding, do coding first, then read the book when you get stuck. Don't read the book first…
Subreddits with the most picked posts and replies. AMAs are where most founders first show up.
How we know each account is theirs is on their page. People without a licensed photo are listed here only.
Research task CompletedFind about 80 founders, CEOs and early employees of well-known companies who post on Reddit under an account publicly tied to them (verified flair, an AMA they hosted, their own site or socials, or press). Lean toward the ones who answer their own customers in their product's subreddit (think Valve in r/Steam, Obsidian in r/ObsidianMD, Tailscale, Home Assistant, Bitwarden, Backblaze, Immich, iFixit, DuckDuckGo, Factorio's Wube, RimWorld's Tynan Sylvester, Stardew Valley's ConcernedApe, Terraria, Path of Exile, Helldivers, Twitch, indie game studios, SaaS and hardware startups), plus Reddit's own founders and first employees and the famous founder AMAs (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Gabe Newell, Jimmy Wales, Mark Cuban, Alexis Ohanian and the like). For each person give: name, company, company website, role at the company, industry, company stage (public, large private, startup, indie studio or solo), Reddit username exactly as it appears, the subreddit where they answer customers if any, the public link tying the account to them, their Wikipedia page if any, and their three best Reddit moments: the permalink, subreddit, date and exact text, favouring times they fixed a bug for a random user, admitted a mistake, explained a decision or told an early-days story.