# Turns out founders on Reddit fix bugs and own their mistakes Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit We read through 1,319 posts and comments from 55 founders' and early employees' Reddit accounts. 169 real Reddit replies from 55 founders and CEOs, from Valve to Stardew Valley: bugs fixed, mistakes owned, decisions explained. ## What we noticed ### Fixing it in the thread Many of them read their own subreddit and fix the bug right where it was reported. 17 of these 55 accounts posted or commented in 2026. - Eric Barone (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1rbjzqj/finally_decided_to_marry_elliot_and_he/o6sw2ip/ - Marco Arment (u/marcoarment) in r/OvercastApp: https://www.reddit.com/r/OvercastApp/comments/1nepzbd/comment/ndtiz8h/ ### Owning the mistake The best replies skip the press-release voice: pricing that was wrong, a model taken away too soon, a promise made too early. - Sam Altman (u/samaltman) in r/ChatGPT: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/gpt5_ama_with_openais_sam_altman_and_some_of_the/n7nelhh/ - Avery Pennarun (u/apenwarr) in r/Tailscale: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/i7x0x1/any_plans_for_affordable_family_plan/g1as9wc/ ### How it started 35 of the 55 accounts have posted in r/IAmA, and the early-days stories are the answers worth reading. - Alan Schaaf (u/MrGrim) in r/reddit.com: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ - Alexis Ohanian (u/kn0thing) in r/pics: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6cvaau/i_told_the_student_who_drew_methe_math_teacher/dhy0f6g/ ## Best moments ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley, Feb 22, 2026 · Fixed it Replying to the post "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 I'll edit the actual data. In this case I must've copied the entry from Leah (she comments if you marry elliott), and then forgotten to change the part that was targeting Elliott Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1rbjzqj/finally_decided_to_marry_elliot_and_he/o6sw2ip/ · 14,652 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley, Mar 17, 2022 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > It's his game. If it's not his fault then who? We haven't even gotten an update on the progress of the port since Dec of last year. It's now the middle of March. At this point the update had been out a year. It's clear his priorities are elsewhere since he's obviously working on… > 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 update, in fact I think about it every day and it causes me a huge amount of grief. I want the update to come out more than anyone. It would be a huge relief to me if the update was ready and was released. I have been working on the new game because I don't have the skills or knowledge to be able to do a mobile port. I've never done any of the ports for stardew valley, I'm not a porting guy, I don't have any experience with that. So I've always relied on other people to do that. If I could throw more money at the problem to make it go faster, I would. Programming doesn't always work like that, especially with a game as nebulously coded as Stardew Valley, which only a few people on the planet have any familiarity with. I've said repeatedly that I would let everyone know if I had any more meaningful information about the update, and otherwise they should assume that It's still in progress. That is still the case, nothing has changed. It's not pleasant to keep tweeting "It's in progress" over and over, and read the responses. Sure, most people are understanding and supportive, but there's also people who are very angry, or even worse, saying things like "I've lost all faith in ConcernedApe", which does hurt because I've worked really hard for the past 10 years to build up goodwill with the community by providing as much support to players as I possibly could as one man. Including spending almost all my time for the past 6 years on free updates that I could've released as paid DLC. So it's really sad to see all that flushed down the toilet because of a delayed mobile update that is the result of factors largely outside of my control. It is demoralizing and part of why I don't get on twitter every week to tweet "It's still in progress, I'm sorry". I fully admit that I have not been as communicative as I should be, and that the delay for the mobile update is egregious and ridiculous. I admit that, and I understand if you are disgusted with me as a developer and don't ever give me another chance. I wish I could be more open about the reasons why the port has been delayed, but I don't think I am legally able to do that. So all I can do is accept the responsibility for this and do my best to bring the update as soon as possible. There's nothing else I can do at this point. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/tgedqt/comment/i12170u/ · 754 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Michal Kovařík** (u/kovarex) in r/factorio, May 30, 2017 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > What's something that the Factorio community has done, that's made you proud/happy to see? ie, the first person to make a 1RPM factory? > 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 that kind of time with the game. And to be honest, I mainly learn how to play the game efficiently from other players :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6e6tkw/im_the_founder_of_factorio_kovarex_ama/di84qew/ · 459 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Scott W** (u/Klonan) in r/factorio, Apr 11, 2021 · Funny Replying to the post "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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/moxgg1/the_turbines_actually_spin_in_the_wrong_direction/gu6gstk/ · 730 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gabe Newell** (u/GabeNewellBellevue) in r/SteamDeck, Apr 2, 2025 · Fixed it Replying to a redditor: > Haha hopefully we don’t need to engage the supreme overlord. I’ve sent Support another message, waiting for their reply. > SlappyMcD, can you email me at gaben@valvesoftware.com to see if we can't get this sorted? Sorry for the inconvenience. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1jp3n3o/comment/mkyto4z/ · 62 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gabe Newell** (u/GabeNewellBellevue) in r/The_Gaben, Jan 17, 2017 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > As someone who is legitimately a fan of the game Ricochet, can you tell us if we will see more of this hidden gem of a franchise in Valve's future, especially with the popularization of VR? > Robin, we found the Ricochet fan. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5olhj4/hi_im_gabe_newell_ama/dck83d2/ · 15,386 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tim Schafer** (u/TimOfLegend) in r/IAmA, Mar 4, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > What exactly do you do as the president of DF? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qhk98/i_am_a_tim_schafer_ask_me_about_loom_or_anything/c3xo6r2/ · 766 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tim Schafer** (u/TimOfLegend) in r/IAmA, Jun 1, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > How did the Humble Indie Bundles influence your decisions to port your games to Linux? What was the porting process like? > 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 when he gets to your house he says, "Is that what you're wearing?" and you say, "uh..." and he says, "Don't worry. I know a guy." And he lends you a cool leather jacket and you go to the party and when you walk in there's a needle scratch and everybody turns to look at you and your friend gives a cool nod and then everybody goes back to the party. So kind of like a John Hughes film. Hope that helps explain things. That's about as technical as I can go. I just hope I don't accidentally knock over a beer can pyramid that some tough guys are building. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ufxcg/were_humble_indie_bundle_v_creators_of/c4v1h8e/ · 1,678 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Nathan Adams** (u/Dinnerbone) in r/Minecraft, Jul 18, 2020 · Behind the scenes Replying to the post "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 and impressed! :D > > Edit: It turns out that was an even earlier panorama, and the one in this post came later. The first one was never released, though. Here's a screenshot of what it would have looked like: > https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/721776112014721096/734129117058039808/unknown.png Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/hthrmk/big_news_we_have_found_the_seed_of_minecrafts/fyherp0/ · 3,625 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jens Bergensten** (u/jeb_) in r/ChoosingBeggars, Dec 1, 2018 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Oof, this brings back memories of writing cringy emails to game companies with ideas I had for games. Never got replies sadly > 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 ;) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChoosingBeggars/comments/a218h4/different_kind_of_cb_yes_i_answered_the_questions/eauqs17/ · 1,166 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jens Bergensten** (u/jeb_) in r/Minecraft, Jul 5, 2014 · The why Replying to a redditor: > This is why Minecraft's devs are awesome. Somebody's programming a clone for a personal project? Send out the lawyers Empathize with them on Reddit. > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/29vrkp/cant_run_minecraft_made_my_own/cip2n7e/ · 1,043 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Charlie Cleveland** (u/Flayra) in r/Games, Feb 28, 2013 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Pre-ordered from you guys way back before the partnership with Wolfire and the humble bundles and all that. Looking back, couldn't be happier with that decision, you guys completely deserved the support. > 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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/19ds9f/natural_selection_2_gorgeous_update_trailer/c8ndb8p/ · 31 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brian Fargo** (u/BrianFargo) in r/IAmA, Sep 19, 2014 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > When did you realize that the kickstarter would become a success? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2gvfzg/comment/ckmz3d0/ · 40 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Richard Garriott** (u/RichardGarriott) in r/IAmA, Sep 4, 2016 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Remember that time you got killed at the bank? Was that beta? Strange how the chaos of UO made it so unique. Also, can I have 5 years of my life back? (jk, thanks for all the memories) > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/515nvs/im_richard_garriott_aka_lord_british_creator_of/d79jwig/ · 147 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Richard Garriott** (u/RichardGarriott) in r/IAmA, Sep 4, 2016 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > So I always wondered... Why "Lord British"? > 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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/515nvs/im_richard_garriott_aka_lord_british_creator_of/d79k85j/ · 88 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **David Crane** (u/PitfallCreator) in r/IAmA, Aug 21, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > I'm 34, and Pitfall! was one of the most memorable games from my childhood. Thanks for the memories, even if buggy detection robbed me of a few swings I KNOW I made. Seriously, you got me grounded at least once for the tantrum that inevitably ensued. Question: How many explorer… > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yli88/iam_david_crane_creator_of_pitfall_and_cofounder/c5wntl1/ · 95 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **David Crane** (u/PitfallCreator) in r/IAmA, Aug 21, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Pitfall! How many developers were on that game? Was it just you? How about graphics and music? The rope swinging sound effect is definitely memorable! Great game. I look forward to seeing your new project! > 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 composers can make better music. SFX specialists, etc. To make a game today requires a dozen specialists. > > But because I have done it all, I can keep those professionals dancing to my tune - making the game I envision. That is the way the development process has evolved, and I evolved with it. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yli88/iam_david_crane_creator_of_pitfall_and_cofounder/c5wnw4o/ · 88 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tom Fulp** (u/TomFulp) in r/Newgrounds, Jan 2, 2025 · Funny Replying to the post "Tom Fulp private messaged me, is this automated ". > It was actually me! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/1hrxsj6/tom_fulp_private_messaged_me_is_this_automated/m515sd4/ · 56 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alexis Ohanian** (u/kn0thing) in r/pics, May 23, 2017 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > @GRINNP0P is her twitter that she wanted me to put on here. That is the number 0. > 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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6cvaau/i_told_the_student_who_drew_methe_math_teacher/dhy0f6g/ · 916 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alexis Ohanian** (u/kn0thing) in r/IAmA, Jun 22, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Hi. you have done a great job with Reddit. Reddit is unique and has raised a very outstanding community which can be never found in the internet. And I love it! What made you start a website like this? what was your inspiration? What do you think about the current Reddit… > 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, but it's since grown into a freaking ecosystem. > > Hopefully that metaphor wasn't too strained and you catch my drift. > > Steve and I had applied to the first round Y Combinator with a different idea (Steve wanted to be able to order fastfood from his cellphone and pick it up when he walked in and I thought it could be a brilliant business). We were rejected from YC, but the next morning PG called my cell and offered us the chance to come back as long as we changed our idea. > > We jumped at the chance, took the next train back to Boston and met with him for about an hour. He pushed us to drop mobile (it was 05) and think about a web app that we'd personally want to use every day. We left that meeting with a phrase in our heads that PG crafted "front page of the internet." Then it was just up to me and Steve to make it. > > At the time, we were intrigued by delicious/popular, which was an interesting byproduct of their bookmarking service. Incidentally, we didn't learn about digg until weeks after we launched. It goes to show how much our ignorance helped, because you may remember all the blatant digg-clones that came and went before digg did -- Steve and I weren't trying to just copy, we were thinking about solving this problem from a clean slate. > > I need to get better at distinguishing between the many varied reddit communities. The culture & community on r/NBA is very different from the culture on r/aww and reddit is just the platform that enables such varied discourse. Steve and I always debated about subreddits vs tagging and I'm happy he won, because although it's taken longer to grow and develop, it's resulted in this marvelous variety in communities all using this common platform. So in a way, all of these varied communities are what we'd hoped for, but we've still got a ways to go until the reddit platform really is the ubiquitous way online communities share and discover content. > > Subreddits for all the things! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/vfosl/comment/c542jo3/ · 197 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Steve Huffman** (u/spez) in r/AskReddit, Oct 31, 2016 · Early days Replying to the post "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 day. As a result, when an opportunity to sell came along, we took it, selling to Condé Nast in 2006. We had little expectations for the company, so it seemed at the time like we were getting away with something. > > Alexis and I stayed with Reddit, under contract with CN, through 2009. I left because I wanted to try something else. I started Hipmunk in 2010 with another buddy, Adam Goldstein. He was the CEO and I was the CTO. I worked on Hipmunk for the next five years, learning many important lessons and unlearned many bad habits I had developed at Reddit. Meanwhile, Reddit continued to grow, eventually spinning out from Conde in 2012, and raising more money towards the end of 2014. > > Reddit went through some hard times (yadda yadda yadda...), and in July of 2015, I returned as CEO. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ac12n/ceos_of_reddit_how_did_you_get_there/d9ftvhq/ · 2,715 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alan Schaaf** (u/MrGrim) in r/reddit.com, Feb 23, 2009 · Early days **My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think?** Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ · 1,684 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Avery Pennarun** (u/apenwarr) in r/Tailscale, Aug 13, 2020 · Owned it Replying to the post "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 we want. A flawed temporary workaround for this is to share a single login between multiple people's devices. ACLs also work in the Solo plan we we intend to continue allowing that. > > Stay tuned for something that makes a lot more sense. Our goal was never to try to extract tons of profit from home users. We just don't have a family-friendly underlying domain model working yet. Working on it! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/i7x0x1/any_plans_for_affordable_family_plan/g1as9wc/ · 8 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brad Fitzpatrick** (u/bradfitz) in r/programming, Jan 7, 2016 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > I still remember that moment of horror when I realized why everyone using distributed hash tables (eg, memcache) weren't as crazy as they looked. Caching is one of the hardest things to do properly. Why on earth would you build all that stuff if you had any other option? We had… > 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 be worse. Prototyped it, it was awesome, and never looked back. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3zr68f/nonvolatile_storage_no_longer_true_that_cpus_are/cyorn1y/ · 47 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Paulus Schoutsen** (u/balloob) in r/programming, Nov 4, 2014 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Could you help us understand why this over something like http://www.openhab.org/ ? > 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 simple script to turn on the lights when it got dark. Most commits to Home Assistant have been pushed by me wanting to learn more about Python, Polymer or me acquiring new devices that I wanted to be integrated. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2l5prr/comment/clt2oqo/ · 4 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Paulus Schoutsen** (u/balloob) in r/homeassistant, Jan 21, 2024 · Owned it Replying to the post "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 the end of the Chapter 5 live stream: https://youtu.be/djEkgoS5dDQ?t=4232 > > It is our aim that by the end of 2024 it will be a no-brainer to pick Assist. You can pick up an [ESP32-S3-Box-3](https://amzn.to/3u9HIUW) (if you find them in stock…) to follow along for the ride of constant improvements. > > There are some really exciting updates coming next month which will bring us a big leap forward (both Home Assistant and ESPHome release). > > The year 2023 was our Year of the Voice and we build the foundation to create the best privacy-respecting voice assistant. Now we're building and iterating to polish it up 👍 > > And to be perfectly clear: Assist is usable today and in many use cases it is great, if not better. However, to replace Alexa/Google, it needs to meet the expectations that every family member has from interacting with Google/Alexa devices (reliable voice pickup with background music, features like timers) and we're not there yet. However, as the 2nd most active open source project in the world, it's not a question of "if" but a question of "when"! 😁 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/19c2e7u/voice_assistants_assist_vs_alexagoogle/kiw781h/ · 485 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Matthew Prince** (u/EastDakota) in r/IAmA, May 2, 2014 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Hi Matt How did you get some of your first customers? Any strategies you can share? > 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 helluva leap of faith. Originally, the way you signed up for CloudFlare was by giving us your registrar's username/password. We wrote a little crawler that would login to your registrar, scrape all the DNS info, and then update your name servers. When we first emailed people we didn't have a UI beyond a little box that said something like: "Give us your GoDaddy username/password." It was pretty crazy that people did it, but we'd built a ton of trust with them over the years running PHPot without ever asking for anything in return. > > The other fun PHPot story was that when we were first starting we didn't have any money for equipment. Michelle (@zatlyn) suggested that we email all the PHPot users who lived around the Bay Area to see if they had any extra servers. So we did. Emailed about 100 people. Got a ton of replies. Michelle drove around in her little Jetta picking up all the servers. None of them worked, but we were able to take parts from them to cobble together 2 that kind of ran. It was on those two servers we built the first prototype of CloudFlare. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24kjm2/i_am_cloudflare_ceo_and_cofounder_matthew_prince/ch83gai/ · 8 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Matthew Prince** (u/EastDakota) in r/IAmA, May 2, 2014 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Did you write much of the original cloudflare code base?...if so, what was the most difficult thing about transitioning into your current non-coding role? What do the 3 remaining lines you wrote in CloudFlare do? > 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 last bit of my code that is left is around our Always Online feature. If you look at how it handles background AJAX requests to see if the site has come back online and think, "That's janky," now you know why. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24kjm2/i_am_cloudflare_ceo_and_cofounder_matthew_prince/ch82gti/ · 7 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sam Altman** (u/samaltman) in r/ChatGPT, Aug 8, 2025 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Why are we getting rid of the variants and 4o when we all have unique communication styles? Please bring them back! > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/gpt5_ama_with_openais_sam_altman_and_some_of_the/n7nelhh/ · 1,047 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sam Altman** (u/samaltman) in r/OpenAI, Jan 31, 2025 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Would you consider releasing some model weights, and publishing some research? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ieonxv/ama_with_openais_sam_altman_mark_chen_kevin_weil/maa0dcx/ · 543 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sid Sijbrandij** (u/sytses) in r/ProgrammerHumor, Jun 3, 2014 · Funny Replying to the post "[gitlab] Nice, v 7.0.0 breaks my workflow...". > GitLab B.V. CEO here, feel free to submit a merge request to fix this. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/276ybv/gitlab_nice_v_700_breaks_my_workflow/chy1byb/ · 19 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/OvercastApp, Sep 12, 2025 · Fixed it Replying to a redditor: > Sad to see that the shuffling of playlists that have been manually adjusted didn’t make the list. That bug hits me multiple times a week. I recognize it’s not an easy one to fix, just disappointed that it appears abandoned. > 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 found it during a Long Island Railroad commute and fixed it one-handed during a transfer on the Jamaica, Queens train platform. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/OvercastApp/comments/1nepzbd/comment/ndtiz8h/ · 6 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/overcast, Mar 20, 2026 · Early days Replying to the post "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, but David valued their tech support as he was learning how to run servers.) > > We stayed on one server for far too long, but Tumblr didn't have funding until late 2007! David was just paying for the server (and our salaries) with our consulting income. > > We later added a second Rackspace server as a dedicated MySQL database for something like another $1200/month. Tumblr ran on just those two servers until March 2008! (It was stressful. This is when I learned how to run things cheaply and efficiently.) > > In March 2008, we moved to six self-managed dedicated servers at ThePlanet (which later became SoftLayer). > > From then until I left in late 2010, we scaled by just ordering more and more dedicated servers — first a couple at a time, but by the end, entire cabinets at a time. > > When I left, we had a dedicated sysadmin so I wasn't managing the servers directly anymore (thank goodness — hi Andrew, if you ever see this!), but we had something like 130 dedicated servers, all in SoftLayer datacenters in Texas that we'd never set foot in. > > Anyway, that's how. > > The only thing Tumblr ever did in Texas was host a killer Rock Band party at SXSW as I hung out with Merlin Mann, Adam Lisagor, Michael Lopp, and John Gruber, all of whom I'd met for the first time [earlier that day](http://www.43folders.com/2009/03/25/blogs-turbocharged) and they'd immediately welcomed me into their group as a peer, because they're all really good and friendly people. (It was a pretty significant day for me.) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1ryhjwl/never_seen_datacenter_infra/obi7ssr/ · 59 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Joel Spolsky** (u/spolsky) in r/programming, Sep 9, 2006 · Early days Replying to the post "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 and 2 years of back pay. > > We started the company on September, 2000 and took delivery of our first Aeron chairs in January, 2001. Most of the early cash flow came from about four consulting gigs, which gave us a buffer until FogBugz sales started kicking in. > > I think pretty much anyone could have done what we did (bootstrap without outside capital) if they were willing to do a few consulting gigs in the first year or so and plow the money back into developing shrinkwrapped software. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hhqx/5_reasons_why_joels_business_probably_isnt_like/chilz/ · 73 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Joel Spolsky** (u/spolsky) in r/IAmA, Apr 20, 2011 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > I can confirm that this is indeed Joel. > Rolex watches cheap: http://joelonsoftware.com/ Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gulpx/iama_cofounder_of_stack_exchange_and_fog_creek/c1qemjn/ · 133 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Rand Fishkin** (u/randfish) in r/bigseo, Nov 28, 2017 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > What's the biggest mistake you've made with Moz? > 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 the company's trajectory. I wrote a bunch about this in my upcoming book (which I think comes out Q2 next year) - painful to recall all the missed opportunity and wasted tens of millions of dollars spent pursuing that. I definitely won't make that mistake again. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo/comments/7g5mpt/howdy_rbigseo_im_rand_fishkin_cofounder_of_moz_ama/dqh446y/ · 25 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Rand Fishkin** (u/randfish) in r/DigitalMarketing, Nov 23, 2022 · Early days Replying to the post "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 (out marketing startup got funded by a local VC, and I became the CEO) > * 2012-2014: CEO - $170K (we grew pretty fast, and got a second, larger round of funding) > * 2014-2018: Individual contributor - $200K (stepped down from the CEO role) > * 2018-2022: CEO - $168K (started a new company in digital marketing, raised money from private investors instead of VC this time) > * 2023: CEO - $250K (we're on track to pay our investors back in 2023, at which point my and my cofounder's salaries will go up) > > I realize this is a fairly unusual progression in digital marketing, but I hoped it might be interesting to some folks who have interest in the entrepreneurial side of things. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/z27no4/what_has_you_salary_progression_been_in_your/ixigozx/ · 24 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Justin Kan** (u/JustinKan) in r/IAmA, Jan 5, 2021 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Is your name why is used to be called Justin.tv? And if so... why did the other partner not get some dibs on part of the name? > They were not stupid enough to volunteer to wear the camera around 24/7. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kr63rg/i_am_justin_kan_cofounder_of_twitch_worlds/gi88el9/ · 144 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Justin Kan** (u/JustinKan) in r/IAmA, Jan 5, 2021 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > Look at that hair. Of course he’s happy. He’s free. > 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 and accomplishing it felt like kind of a let down, to be honest. I still was plagued with "what ifs" and desires to start an even bigger company. > > Then, several years ago, I sat in an ayahausca ceremony for the first time. Plant medicine revealed to me since I was a kid I had always felt disconnected from the people around me, and that all my life I had been chasing extrinsic goals (like becoming successful and making money) in order to get the approval of other people. I had always felt this deep need for approval, whether from friends and family, or just random people on the internet. > > Even though this wasn't a particularly pleasant self-realization, I also realized that in a way this behavior had served me (I had become successful because of it), and I could love myself for it. Lastly, I also realized just because I had lived this way for the first 30-something years of my life, I didn't have to continue like this. > > I started building a daily routine of self care that included daily meditation, exercise, quitting drinking, changing my diet, and gratitude journaling. I now try to only work on things I am intrinsically motivated to do: helping people around me, making content when I feel like making content, deepening my relationships with people. And I feel much, much happier than I've ever been. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kr63rg/i_am_justin_kan_cofounder_of_twitch_worlds/gi7w6j0/ · 551 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Luis von Ahn** (u/vonahn) in r/IAmA, May 29, 2013 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Is Duolingo actually making enough money the way it works now? > The other day we found a quarter under the couch. I think that's the entirety of our revenue so far. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fa3nu/iama_scientist_and_entrepreneur_named_luis_von/ca89oed/ · 439 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Luis von Ahn** (u/vonahn) in r/AskReddit, Aug 2, 2015 · Personal story Replying to the post "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](http://www.duolingo.com) :) 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 Duolingo (in English), and the first question I got afterwards was what language I was learning myself. I made the mistake of saying Portuguese, and they proceded to ask me all other questions in Portuguese. This was the first time I ever spoke it with a real human, and it was in front of an audience of more than 1k people! I was terrified. But in the end it worked out pretty well. I was able to understand 100% of what they asked, and answer most things in Portuguese (though I sounded very broken). To be fair, I'm very familiar with the usual questions people ask after one of my talks, but still... > > So for me, it has helped me go from 0 to a very decent level of understanding (reading and listening), but I'm shaky at speaking, mainly because I'm afraid of sounding stupid. This is something we're actively working to improve. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3fgxoz/has_anyone_here_completed_a_language_in_duolingo/ctojpbr/ · 1,684 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Stephen Wolfram** (u/StephenWolfram-Real) in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2012 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > What is the most interesting use of Mathematica and/or Wolfram Alpha you've ever seen? > 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 backup disk, but needed a password for a different computer; all-time favorite call to customer service ... and finally an in-action solving of equations of motion for a spinning space station. > > Of course, for me personally, my favorite Mathematica "uses" are the research for A New Kind of Science, Wolfram|Alpha ... and the building of Mathematica itself. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfram_mathematica_nks_wolframalpha/c3xyqf7/ · 1,048 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Josef Průša** (u/josefprusa) in r/prusa3d, Jan 5, 2024 · Funny Replying to the post "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 🫶 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/18ze54b/ok_i_give_why_gummy_bears/kgh0jzk/ · 490 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Josef Průša** (u/josefprusa) in r/3Dprinting, May 29, 2016 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > First print! Pre-loaded model at 50μm. Directly off the bed with no cleanup and no tuning except z offset! > 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 one from sample objects onto your SD :-) Here is the new one compared to one from Form2! http://imgur.com/a/Urkvi Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/4lhcnc/comment/d3o5up8/ · 4 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Lisa Su** (u/AMD_LisaSu) in r/Amd, Feb 28, 2017 · Funny Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5vl431/its_happening_amd_cpu_division_will_host_an_ama/deby72a/ · 1,145 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Lisa Su** (u/AMD_LisaSu) in r/Amd, Mar 2, 2017 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > What is it like working at AMD? How was the work environment like leading up to the Ryzen launch? Any quirky Ryzen-related stories to share? > 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 - we just kept trying each application and things kept looking better and better. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_radeon_and_other/def7ebq/ · 178 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Palmer Luckey** (u/palmerluckey) in r/IAmA, Jan 7, 2016 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > What is the ballpark price of the touch controllers? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cyowadt/ · 779 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Palmer Luckey** (u/palmerluckey) in r/pcmasterrace, Jan 11, 2016 · The why Replying to a redditor: > I don't know if this is still going on, but what are the specs of your pc? > 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 same experience as most of my customers. I don’t want to become disconnected from the reality of how our hardware and software performs. > > As far as traditional gaming, though… I am currently working on a new PC that people might find pretty interesting. I have experimented with liquid nitrogen cooling in the past, but it is a huge pain to work with in any kind of daily use, and can also be dangerous. My new project is a very small super-powerful PC with no heatsinks and no fans - it is cooled by liquid propane, boiled into gaseous propane in an expansion block. From there, I can either compress back into a tank under high pressure, or vent out of a burner nozzle for supercooling to subzero temps. If I had more time, I would vent the propane to a small turbine generator hooked up to the PSU, but I can’t justify that kind of work right now. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/40ea0x/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/cytl8lz/ · 619 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Bill Gates** (u/thisisbillgates) in r/IAmA, Feb 27, 2018 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Do you miss anything about your time at Microsoft? > 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 and see what the longer term trends were. Now I work on things like malaria where I wish there was more competition to solve the problems and things moved faster. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80ow6w/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/dux6x7g/ · 14,465 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Bill Gates** (u/thisisbillgates) in r/IAmA, Feb 27, 2017 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > If you could give 19 year old Bill Gates some advice, what would it be? > 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 socially back then but I am not sure there is advice that would fix that - maybe I had to be awkward and just grow up.... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5whpqs/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/dea7isk/ · 14,767 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Elon Musk** (u/ElonMuskOfficial) in r/IAmA, Jan 6, 2015 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Previously, you've stated that you estimate a 50% probability of success with the attempted landing on the automated spaceport drone ship tomorrow. Can you discuss the factors that were considered to make that estimation? In addition, can you talk more about the grid fins that… > 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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_ceocto_of_a_rocket_company_ama/cnfqjjk/ · 3,909 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Barbara Corcoran** (u/barbaracorcoran) in r/IAmA, May 20, 2015 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > At face-value, does having immense wealth truly make life better day-to-day? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36mwvs/i_am_barbara_corcoran_of_abcs_shark_tank_prior_to/crfdgxm/ · 167 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Barbara Corcoran** (u/barbaracorcoran) in r/IAmA, May 20, 2015 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > How were you able to go from straight D's to being successful? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36mwvs/i_am_barbara_corcoran_of_abcs_shark_tank_prior_to/crfdp61/ · 158 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Vitalik Buterin** (u/vbuterin) in r/CryptoCurrency, Nov 22, 2022 · Funny Replying to the post "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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/z1vkh5/vitalik_buterin_is_considering_reddit_as_an/ixe3qn4/ · 1,539 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Migicovsky** (u/erOhead) in r/pebble, Aug 24, 2015 · Funny Replying to the post "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 :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/3i8f0y/anyone_else_get_an_email_from_eric_migicovsky/cue803c/ · 328 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jimmy Wales** (u/jimmywales1) in r/IAmA, Apr 27, 2017 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Do you think you're more known as the (co-)founder of Wikipedia, or as the guy on Wikipedia always asking for money? > 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 I'm actually most known as a watch model in China: > https://amotimes.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/untitled.jpg > > Ha! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/67vbyo/iama_jimmy_wales_from_wikipedia_and_as_of_this/dgtizy1/ · 1,357 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Philip Rosedale** (u/PhilipRosedale) in r/IAmA, Feb 23, 2021 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Hi Philip - we met many years ago on SL, I was a fairly well-known content creator and we chatted on a few occasions. Whatever happened to Starax? And what is the future of SL? (I left many years ago, but notice its still going). > 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 wand was something like $50USD (if I remember), and it was the gift everyone was dreaming of getting in SL one Holiday season. Who wouldn't want a magic wand that makes a 3D locomotive appear and drive through you and your friend if you happened to type "train". Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lqpsvs/i_am_philip_rosedale_founder_of_second_life_and/goi1so7/ · 53 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Rob Malda** (u/CmdrTaco) in r/IAmA, Jul 17, 2012 · Funny Replying to the post "IAM Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, Founder of Slashdot, AMA.". > First Post. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wplvf/iam_rob_cmdrtaco_malda_founder_of_slashdot_ama/c5fbwfg/ · 1,188 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marcin Kleczynski** (u/mkleczynski) in r/IAmA, Oct 10, 2012 · Fixed it Replying to a redditor: > Am I the only person who's annoyed by the way, when you manually update Malwarebytes definitions, and then accidentally highlight another window while it's downloading (, that you can't just tab back to the update window when it finishes because it hasn't created anything in the… > Nope, I just tried it and I'm annoyed. Off the to development queue it goes. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/119cyf/iam_marcin_kleczynski_founder_and_ceo_of/c6kguir/ · 927 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marcin Kleczynski** (u/mkleczynski) in r/IAmA, Oct 10, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Just wanted to say thank you. Spent three years working in a local computer shop and about every computer was fixed thanks to malwarebytes. > You're welcome! I worked at a computer shop where we reformatted every. Single. Machine. I couldn't take it anymore. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/119cyf/iam_marcin_kleczynski_founder_and_ceo_of/c6kg4qy/ · 373 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **James Hoffmann** (u/kingseven) in r/JamesHoffmann, Oct 18, 2025 · Fixed it Replying to the post "Error in The World Atlas of Coffee?". > 🤦‍♂️ > Thank you - we’ll make sure this is fixed in future print runs! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesHoffmann/comments/1oa1a8r/error_in_the_world_atlas_of_coffee/nk6dlc9/ · 790 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ## More moments ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley, Sep 16, 2018 · The why Replying to the post "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 great memes of its own! I enjoy the Stardew memes Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/9g9axd/countless_memes_later/e62uh4h/ · 1,643 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/nintendo, Oct 9, 2017 · AMA answer Replying to a redditor: > Since you were a one-man shop on Stardew, what was your favorite aspect of development? Coding? Software architecture? Graphics programming? Art? Sound design? Music? > 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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/75ag0g/im_concernedape_creator_of_stardew_valley_ask_me/do4nnb6/ · 1,478 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley, Feb 19, 2024 · Funny Replying to the post "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... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1audu0s/we_met_eric_barone_and_hes_super_chill/kr3j6qy/ · 1,569 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Barone** (u/ConcernedApe) in r/StardewValley, Dec 26, 2020 · Funny Replying to the post "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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/kkibrs/i_see_what_you_did_there_eric_barone/gh47f5y/ · 1,809 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Michal Kovařík** (u/kovarex) in r/nerdcubed, Aug 1, 2014 · The why Replying to the post "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, was huge inspiration to create Factorio. In fact, before even the idea to create my own game came to my mind, I started to make my own (private) changes to these minecraft mods. I loved and enjoyed these mods A LOT and saw a big potential in the automation game, but I wanted to grab the subject and implement it my way. I wanted to be able to avoid the limitations of the Minecraft engine, so there can be huge factories with hundreds of thousands of items on transport belts while keeping smooth gameplay and without the need to think about activated/passive chunks. I wanted to have some other survival challenge than surviving the first night, that is somehow compatible with the industrialisation progress. I wanted to make it more about strategy, planning and timing than about a lot of hard work. I wanted it to have more variable logistics possibilities. I wanted to implement lot of good concepts from other games, as well as some of my own ideas. I wanted it to be all balanced and carved to work as a whole, because once the count of mods you use in minecraft (or any other game) starts to rise, the overall balance usually suffers a lot. Wasn't Minecraft created because Notch saw some concept in different game that he just wanted to do right? Factorio is the same thing I believe. I would also encourage anyone who plays Factorio (and has a lot of time to spare) to try the Minecraft industrial mods, so he can compare these two things and understand better what I'm trying to achieve. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdcubed/comments/2c9rh7/comment/cjdtffh/ · 165 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Michal Kovařík** (u/kovarex) in r/factorio, May 30, 2017 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Can you explain the magic behind the transport belts? How are they able to function without electricity? > Hamsters. In the next major update, you will have to feed them. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6e6tkw/im_the_founder_of_factorio_kovarex_ama/di8chz9/ · 610 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Michal Kovařík** (u/kovarex) in r/factorio, May 30, 2017 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > It's great that you aren't afraid to do this. Many developers (eg. Minecraft) always try to add stuff that no-one has come up with before which ends up with obscure updates which no-one wants. Mods are made because people want to improve the game and so are updates, so if a mod… > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6e6tkw/im_the_founder_of_factorio_kovarex_ama/di8bel4/ · 454 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Scott W** (u/Klonan) in r/factorio, Oct 23, 2026 · Fixed it Replying to the post "Graphical Bug in 2.1 cover art?". > Fixed! Thanks for the report :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1xdd6q2/graphical_bug_in_21_cover_art/19rjaj60xvnvm/ · 971 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Scott W** (u/Klonan) in r/factorio, Nov 21, 2018 · Fixed it Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/9z02k8/you_can_no_longer_buy_factorio_in_australia/ea5lj1x/ · 373 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Scott W** (u/Klonan) in r/factorio, Jan 7, 2023 · Fixed it Replying to the post "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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/105qj14/a_small_quality_of_life_feature_id_love_to_see/j3cf8el/ · 635 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gabe Newell** (u/GabeNewellBellevue) in r/The_Gaben, Jan 17, 2017 · The why Replying to a redditor: > They have spoken about this in the past before and the short answer is their general design practice is constantly changing. Saying we are working on X might radically change in some capacity. For example Team fortress 2 was originally a very realistic game with radically… > 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 believes it is an integral part of their job to do so. And when it comes time to respond, we generally use Steam - shipping updates that address issues or add functionality. Obviously this doesn't work for everything. Working this way imposes latency on our communication - it takes longer to ship and update than to do a blog post. This can lead to the feeling of an echo chamber, where it seems like Valve isn't listening. We’re always listening. So sometimes the latency is rough for everyone, including us when we want to address issues quickly. On balance we think it's usually worth the trade-off. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5olhj4/comment/dck9koc/ · 2,167 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tim Schafer** (u/TimOfLegend) in r/IAmA, May 9, 2013 · The why Replying to a redditor: > badge exultant edge air pot deliver wipe salt modern sable This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact > 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 why my programmers have to work so hard. So basically, I'd be doing exactly what I'm doing right now! :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1e0ijv/i_am_a_tim_schafer_ama/c9vmxnz/ · 1,258 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Nathan Adams** (u/Dinnerbone) in r/Minecraft, Apr 7, 2014 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > What i do not understand is why they do not fully prioritize the api. Because using his analogy, they now have one team trying to rebuild the engines of the jet while another team is still actively working on making the current engines more complicated. If they'd first finish… > 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 creator of Bukkit > - Searge, creator of MCP - (pretty much) all your client mods are using this > - TheMogMiner, cool rendering engineer > > The focus is as follows: > > - Jeb is currently focusing on MC:PE, but otherwise works on the gameplay of Minecraft. > - I work towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API. > - Grum works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API. > - Searge works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API. > - TheMogMiner works towards making the codebase cleaner, refactoring systems towards something we can expose through an API. > > Believe me, we're prioritizing the API :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/22ffrn/for_those_of_you_who_dont_know_why_the_api_is/cgmgd34/ · 567 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Nathan Adams** (u/Dinnerbone) in r/Minecraft, Apr 1, 2015 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Everyone does realize what day it is, right? > I hoped this would go unnoticed until after april fools. It is not a joke. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/311cyh/a_qr_code_hidden_in_the_snow_leads_to_19/cpxo2e6/ · 432 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Nathan Adams** (u/Dinnerbone) in r/Minecraft, Dec 19, 2013 · Fixed it Replying to a redditor: > Hi, Here's another "will you add x?!" post for you... Sorry.. Basically, I am deaf... and I wish for subtitles, to allow me to enjoy the game a little closer to the complete experience... (The game XIII completely immersed me with its comic-book style 3d positioned subtitles) I… > ... Huh. I never thought about this. I'll bring it up with the team :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1t6qn7/i_am_dinnerbone_a_minecraft_developer_ask_me/ce557re/ · 369 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jens Bergensten** (u/jeb_) in r/Minecraft, May 28, 2014 · The why Replying to the post "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 with names playing on Atlantis ("Atlantite") and Poseidon. > > I picked **Prismarine** because 1) it sounds good, 2) it references water with "marine", 3) it references its "shimmering effect" I hinted at with "prism", and 4) it doesn't really mean anything in the real world. > > Thanks again for all the suggestions, it was super helpful! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/26op99/twitter_jeb_with_the_help_of_reddit_and/cht13ys/ · 1,000 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Charlie Cleveland** (u/Flayra) in r/ns2, Mar 4, 2012 · The why Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ns2/comments/qhbws/does_anyone_know_if_there_is_going_to_be_any_kind/c3xmuzb/ · 33 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Charlie Cleveland** (u/Flayra) in r/subnautica, Feb 6, 2016 · Behind the scenes Replying to the post "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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/44dmy2/giant_reefback_now_with_seamoth_for_scale/czq7aak/ · 54 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Charlie Cleveland** (u/Flayra) in r/subnautica, Dec 12, 2018 · The why Replying to the post "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 of them young, so we're hoping it doesn't hurt our Steam sales too much. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/a56y51/subnautica_to_release_on_the_epic_games_launcher/eblq3fg/ · 114 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brian Fargo** (u/BrianFargo) in r/IAmA, Apr 13, 2012 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > I love the idea behind kickingitforward. How did you come up with the idea? > 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 he was a donator. This got me thinking about the concept of paying it forward. At the same time I was interested in how I can help perpetuate Kickstarter to work for others. The fan funding model is just SO darn good and it offers hope to mid level developers that were all falling to the way side. In addition it offers opportunity for new people to get in. I am hoping that hundreds of thousands of dollars are being put back into the economy of Kickstarter from this initiative. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s81zu/rpg_fireside_chat_with_brian_fargo_and_chris/c4buo5m/ · 55 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brian Fargo** (u/BrianFargo) in r/Wasteland, Nov 12, 2024 · Funny Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wasteland/comments/1gp1cgl/brian_fargo_on_creating_wasteland_and_fallout/lwq06wj/ · 125 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Richard Garriott** (u/RichardGarriott) in r/IAmA, Mar 25, 2013 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > HI Richard, just a thank you for Ultima VII 1+2 and VIII! Both parts of VII have remained my favorite games since I first played them a few years after their release. VIII was the first one I owned myself, so I am also very fond of this, disappointed the expansion never got… > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1aztsm/comment/c92butt/ · 23 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Swen Vincke** (u/Swen_Larian) in r/Games, Jan 9, 2026 · The why Replying to a redditor: > Is there anything specific you were not able (or allowed, by Wizards as IP holder) to do in BG3 that you want to do in Divinity? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1q870w5/larian_studios_divinity_ama/nylbe36/ · 1,318 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Swen Vincke** (u/Swen_Larian) in r/Games, Jan 9, 2026 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > What so far has been your favorite part of making Divinity and what has been your least favorite part? > Least favourite: Answering questions about AI. > > Favourite:All the rest :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1q870w5/larian_studios_divinity_ama/nyls4xc/ · 218 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Swen Vincke** (u/Swen_Larian) in r/Games, Jan 9, 2026 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > How much bigger is the dev team for Divinity compared to BG3? Do you expect Larian studios to keep growing for each new game, or do you expect a limit sooner or later? Do you prefer that a larger game studio focuses on one game at a time, or split up to work on projects… > 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. We grew a lot during BG3 because we wanted to make a cinematic RPG with loads of choice and consequence but we also knew there was a market and scaled accordingly. Our growth has slowed down a bit as we have most of the team in place to make a big cinematic RPG but there are still a few things that we didn’t do before that we are doing now. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1q870w5/larian_studios_divinity_ama/nylidm8/ · 58 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **David Crane** (u/PitfallCreator) in r/IAmA, Aug 21, 2012 · The why Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yli88/iam_david_crane_creator_of_pitfall_and_cofounder/c5wnkj7/ · 62 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tom Fulp** (u/TomFulp) in r/IAmA, Oct 29, 2009 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Why did you make Alien Hominid so god damned hard?! > 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 to "good hard." That is one of my big pearls of wisdom... If players are having too much trouble beating your game, it's probably because you're stupid, not them. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z226/i_am_tom_fulp_creator_of_newgroundscom_and/c0f3iwg/ · 62 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tom Fulp** (u/TomFulp) in r/Newgrounds, Aug 18, 2021 · Behind the scenes Replying to the post "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](https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1272348) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newgrounds/comments/p6rp9p/found_this_on_my_stepdads_roku_havent_heard/h9etfrz/ · 58 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Tom Fulp** (u/TomFulp) in r/incremental_games, Aug 31, 2020 · Fixed it Replying to a redditor: > Hi Tom, thanks for being on this thread. The problem with Newgrounds right now for me is simply that idle/incremental games are hard to find. There is no category I can click on, so if the game doesn't literally have "Idle" or "Incremental" in its title, I have no way (at least… > 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](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 is something we've long considered but hard to say if we'll ever actually do it, given the big to-do list we're always working through. We do have a hub update to the games section coming, which will introduce larger thumbnails and more filtering options. > > This subreddit could even consider crowdfunding a monthly prize that's given out each month to new games, regardless of what site they appear on. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/iilok3/the_fall_of_kongregate_has_left_a_cavity_in_the/g3gg8zf/ · 59 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Edmund McMillen** (u/EdmundMcMillen) in r/Games, Sep 2, 2025 · The why Replying to a redditor: > Ok, ok I'll be the one to ask: Will there be a demo to play? > 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 you.. and with steams return polocy every game is a demo, in a way :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1n6u1vw/mewgenics_gameplay_reveal/nc2rgg5/ · 632 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Edmund McMillen** (u/EdmundMcMillen) in r/gaming, Dec 10, 2025 · Behind the scenes Replying to u/EdmundMcMillen: > yes > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1pj8wqu/edmund_mcmillen_here_creator_of_the_binding_of/ntbs402/ · 971 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alexis Ohanian** (u/kn0thing) in r/AskReddit, Aug 18, 2010 · Early days Replying to the post "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 them. I was bored in marketing class (go figure) and doodled up the alien for no other reason than I thought it looked neat. > > Plus, if we had a futuristic time-travelling alien mascot, it implies that the site couldn't fail (because how else would the alien have travelled back in time?). > > This story came after the mascot, which PG wasn't a huge fan of, but I wasn't going to relent and it was our startup anyway; though I think that time-travel backstory was Steve's idea. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d2afb/comment/c0x4j13/ · 17 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alexis Ohanian** (u/kn0thing) in r/mildlyinteresting, Jul 25, 2017 · Funny Replying to the post "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... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6pg53q/found_an_old_broken_car_with_an_old_reddit/dkp9uws/ · 475 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Steve Huffman** (u/spez) in r/IAmA, Jul 11, 2015 · The why Replying to a redditor: > Do you plan on reviewing your policy on shadowbanning users? From my understanding this was first implemented as a measure to prevent spam bots from knowing they have been silenced, but has since been expanded to everyday users without there knowledge. Is there any new system in… > 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 when they've been caught so that they don't improve their tech. > > Real users should never be shadowbanned. Ever. If we ban them, or specific content, it will be obvious that it's happened and there will be a mechanism for appealing the decision. > > edit: Removed the word "moderators" because their tools are different from our tools. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huffman_the_new_ceo_of_reddit_ama/cszv2lg/ · 5,496 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Aaron Swartz** (u/AaronSw) in r/reddit.com, Dec 1, 2006 · Funny Replying to the post "What reddit looked like in July 25, 2005.". > Wow, so much has changed... Paul Graham now posts under 10 psuedonyms instead of just one! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/t5ns/what_reddit_looked_like_in_july_25_2005/ct622/ · 48 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Yishan Wong** (u/yishan) in r/explainlikeimfive, Mar 22, 2014 · The why Replying to the post "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 spend my time working on X (see below), plus facilitate decisions on whatever critical issue has been escalated to my level. I say "facilitate" instead of "make" because sometimes I'm not the best person to *make* a decision, but instead I push people to sharpen their thinking, confront ambiguity, etc, in order to render a decision, especially on tough issues. > > X is defined as an always-varying combination of 1) things in my key areas of personal strength, 2) areas where, especially in a small company, we have not yet hired key people to lead that area but which still need to be done, and 3) areas where quality of execution is not sufficiently developed to achieve key strategic aims. > > In #2 and #3, potentially *none* of those areas may lie in my own areas of personal strength. As such, one other key activity for a CEO is to recruit the right people to the company who have the expertise to lead work in those areas better than he/she can. > > ---- > > Ever since taking this job, I've discovered several things that I think result in CEOs being paid a lot more than other corporate officers. It's been an interesting journey. > > **1) The CEO is responsible for *everything*.** In a regular job, there are always problems that come up that you don't necessarily need to be responsible for - it's your co-worker's area, or you can kick it up to your boss, it belongs to another department, etc. Even if you are an VP or other executive, a problem may come up that is just in some other exec's department (e.g. if you are VP of Marketing and a tech problem comes up, it's the VP of Eng's issue, and vice versa). If you are the CEO, there is no other such person. *Every* problem is your problem. Yes, you can delegate, but you are responsible for the person handling it correctly. 100% of problems at the company are your problem. This is true for no one else. > > **2) You are the public face of your company, no matter how much you don't care to be.** When you think about a company, good or bad, you think of the CEO as the ultimate authority on everything. You probably don't know the VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, or the CFO of Tesla, but I'll bet you know the CEO's names. The CEO becomes *personally synonymous* with the company, especially when someone has a complaint. > > **2a) In a failure, you *must* be willing to be the sacrificial lamb to the public.** This is something that comes with the job, and is not a job requirement for any other executive position. Sometimes other executives take a fall publicly when something goes wrong, but it is usually because of something egregious directly going wrong in their organization. On the other hand, there are multiple macroeconomic or external disaster scenarios which can affect a company negatively and if the CEO is nothing less than brilliant in overcoming them (not always possible), it's part of the CEO's job to resign or be fired, and usually shamed publicly. This is known and accepted as part of the job. If you've had any other job, this was probably not part of your job description. :) > > **3) The job doesn't end. In many jobs, the job can end when you go home or on vacation.** Even in other crisis-response-type positions (ER, police, fire, datacenter ops), you have on-shift rotations and downtime. Not so for a CEO. Whatever key strategic initiative, ongoing crisis of the moment, or existential threat to the company will always be on your mind, and you are always subject to having a high-priority issue escalated to you. This is related to #1, i.e. you are responsible for *everything,* in that if there is something that truly requires your attention, no one will say "Wait, he/she's off-duty, don't bother them." You are always on duty; your downtime is when you leave the job. > > **4) You actually have *less* power over your environment than you have in any other job.** This is a counter-intuitive thing that people often don't realize about positions of authority. The degree of control you feel you have over your life is a ratio between the size of the sphere of things you can directly control ("Sphere of Influence") compared to the size of the sphere of things whose effects you need to worry about ("Sphere of Concern"). When you have a front-line, entry-level job, you may feel that you have little power, but the *ratio* of power-to-concern is quite high: you can affect how you are doing your job, and things you can't control include your boss, certain things about your work environment, and customers you come into contact with. If you become a manager, you control the entire team (but not really - people may defy you if you are not convincing enough), but now you have to be concerned with things that happen in other teams, elsewhere in the company, and an even larger demographic of customers. As a CEO, you have authority over the entire company (though again not true control over every individual's free actions), but you need to be worried about all the users and customers, competitors, large-scale industry trends, macroeconomic forces, regulators and governments, the press, etc. Thus, being a CEO requires developing extreme mental equanimity in the face of feeling nearly totally powerless - and still being able to make effective decisions using the limited resources you *can* control. > > ---- > > These are the things I've noticed that separate the job from other high-level executive jobs. Certainly there are other factors (mentioned in other comments here), like being good at building relationships with key outside parties, having a lot of industry contacts, and being great at decision-making, but those are true of many executive-level positions. Thus, I believe that the salary differential arises largely from the fact that: > > * the CEO role involves a qualitatively higher level of life stress and personal risk-tolerance, > * subsequently far fewer people are willing to take on such a role, and > * the pool of such people intersected with people who are actually good at doing the job is therefore incredibly small, > * intersected further on a per-industry basis (Alan Mulally from Ford could not have been a CEO for Microsoft). > > This leads to an acute supply-and-demand problem, i.e. the "I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this shit" issue, wherein plenty of otherwise talented executives who would be CEO candidates are happy to just stick with not taking that extra step - keep in mind that anyone with the combination of characteristics necessary to be a successful CEO has *lots* of options - so you end up with a highly illiquid market of candidates, and thus boards and compensation committees have to come up with really unique compensation packages to induce those people to take the job. > > **TL;DR:** excessive CEO pay is the result of the combination of the job having extreme unique requirements *and* its effects on supply-and-demand. > > ---- > > FAQ: > > Q: How much do you get paid? > > A: Not enough to deal with this shit. But that keeps our burn rate down, at least. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/210to8/eli5_what_does_a_ceo_of_a_large_company_do_in_a/cg8pycf/ · 3,119 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Yishan Wong** (u/yishan) in r/TheoryOfReddit, Dec 15, 2012 · The why Replying to a redditor: > I wish I had won that last lottery. I'd buy reddit and keep it going as is. But I don't want ads, just because with ad-supported media the user becomes the product and not the customer. How many reddit golds would it take to support the site. At $7 million a year, about 234k… > 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 for a startup that was sold to a big company, and experienced how awful that was, both for life at the small company and what happened to the product (PayPal). > > Further, reddit was already *extremely lucky* to have been bought once in its lifetime by a large company that somehow, miraculously, didn't fuck it up. That is exceedingly rare in the corporate world. Now reddit has been spun off because Advance feels that by transitioning from whole owner to partial investor, it can allow an independent reddit to grow into something really great in the long-term, and they just want to own a chunk of that. So, having been lucky once, I'm not about to try my luck, our luck, the community's luck - again with another acquisition. So this is make or break - reddit has to find a way to be profitable and stand on its own. If we do, reddit will never need to sell, and it will be driven by the needs of its users. > > That said, we don't want people to buy reddit gold out of guilt. It's really nice that people did (I did, when it was launched) but we want to make gold better and better by adding features over time so that people will want to buy it out of self-interest. Guilt isn't a business model. > > **Point of interest:** we recently did launch a small persistent ad for reddit gold on the front page. It only shows up if you don't have reddit gold - log out and see. Look on the right sidebar, underneath the 300x250. It's supposed to be small and classy - we call it the goldvertisement. *After* you buy gold, if you don't disable ads, the ad turns into a little daily affirmation, and say something like "Who's awesome? / You're awesome" or "reddit is made of people / people like you." > > Not only that, but we are *also* doing the contest thing: it's a little hard to tell that it's going on, but /u/powerlanguage is running biweekly contests in /r/lounge. There's [one going on right now](http://www.reddit.com/r/lounge/comments/14h1iy/gold_peddler_competition/) to come up with more humorous messages to display in the goldvertisement box. It's lounge-specific, rather than reddit-wide as you seem to suggest, because intended to be another "feature" of gold, just another little bit of droll fun. > > Anyhow, thought you might like to know that. :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/14unl6/reddit_is_a_corporate_investment_and_we_are_the/c7gwhzp/ · 1,934 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Yishan Wong** (u/yishan) in r/IAmA, Apr 20, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > what's your favorite subreddit? > /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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/sk1ut/iam_yishan_wong_the_reddit_ceo/c4emqyq/ · 1,336 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Yishan Wong** (u/yishan) in r/IAmA, Jan 21, 2014 · Funny Replying to the post "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](http://us.reddit.com/r/forhire/comments/1vsc55/hiring_reddit_is_hiring_fulltime_position/). > > We offer competitive salary and benefits, and one of our perks includes up to $500 reimbursable per year for gym memberships to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Under certain circumstances, you would also be authorized to wield the [banhammer](http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/20/Reddits-Official-Banhammers/), although we have been especially impressed with [your ability to resolve conflicts with well-chosen words](http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/1i2w2z/best_damn_cardio_humanly_possible_in_15_minutes/cb0ky70). > > We feel you would make a great addition to the team, and encourage you to apply for the position. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vshw2/iamarnold_ama_20/cevdrtv/ · 3,504 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alan Schaaf** (u/MrGrim) in r/IAmA, Aug 14, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Has anyone tried to buy imgur from you and who? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_ama/c5t5xzn/ · 1,832 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Alan Schaaf** (u/MrGrim) in r/IAmA, Oct 21, 2015 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > [9/10]I'll ask what is everyone's minds. How do you say imgur? I need to hear it from you. Alan. Edit: I know this question was totally googleable, I just wanted to join in. > image-er Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3pn7i1/im_alan_and_i_created_imgur_ama/cw7qsx5/ · 3,443 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Avery Pennarun** (u/apenwarr) in r/Tailscale, Jun 12, 2020 · The why Replying to the post "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, how do you know which one (or both) is broken? > > hello.ipn.dev helps with those questions, even if it's just a pingable server. But ping is hard to do on iOS or Android, and even on other OSes it requires people to drop to the command line, which can be tough, so we added an https server you can visit from a browser. And then we had to make the https server respond with something, so we added a (go-based) irc server kind of as a joke. (You can also connect using a regular irc client, which is another important test: most BeyondCorp-style products cannot proxy non-http traffic like irc.) More on testing with hello.ipn.dev here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1030/next-steps > > The irc server seems to have gotten misconstrued as a tech support mechanism lately, which isn't ideal (since we're a small team and can't monitor it full time), so we'll probably aim to shut it down and redirect people to freenode. But on the other hand, some users like it so we're hesitant to shut it down. > > Anyway, other commenters are correct that it's ACLed to not allow outgoing connections; it makes a good demo of a "one way" node. Nevertheless, users who are concerned about keeping their network private should remove the test node from their network, as described here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1073/hello-ipn-dev > > -- Avery@Tailscale Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/h79gmr/helloipndev_security/fumdx2f/ · 3 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Avery Pennarun** (u/apenwarr) in r/Tailscale, Aug 6, 2020 · Behind the scenes Replying to the post "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 of in the tailscale architecture is even if our public web site and login servers have outages, your network itself should keep being able to communicate, because the data is exchanged point-to-point. (The only part that wouldn't work during server downtime is adding new nodes, changing permissions, etc.) Obviously this doesn't excuse server downtime, but it's nice to have multiple layers of protection. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/i4kpbq/tailscale_is_down/g0j29zr/ · 6 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brad Fitzpatrick** (u/bradfitz) in r/Tailscale, May 18, 2024 · Fixed it Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1cv3tho/comment/l4n1fym/ · 11 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brad Fitzpatrick** (u/bradfitz) in r/Tailscale, May 22, 2025 · Owned it Replying to the post "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 coworkers, but we had a special case for @[gmail.com](http://gmail.com) users getting their own tailnets (because at the time, we only supported Google Auth). Later we added GitHub, and GitHub special cases for individuals vs orgs (which nicely mapped to our single-user vs multi-user tailnets). > > Over time, we added more auth providers like (and BYO-OIDC) and this whole assume-a-multi-user-tailnet-unless-gmail-and-192-other-shared-email-hosts model really fell apart. We "decompose" (add to our shared email domain list) tailnets every month or so as we find them. We didn’t have your domain on our list previously. > > We’re in the middle of changing the identity model to make this class of problem go away entirely, though. > > Meanwhile, we just chatted about it and seems like the quickest thing we can do here is turn on User Approvals for all new tailnets so at least the admin of new tailnets like yours has to approve people joining them. > > \[Edit May 28: see [https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1kxwtu5/shared\_domains\_security\_bulletin/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1kxwtu5/shared_domains_security_bulletin/) for the security bulletin\] Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1ksy3xy/someone_just_randomly_joined_my_tailnet/mtqd4et/ · 1 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Brad Fitzpatrick** (u/bradfitz) in r/Android, Dec 6, 2010 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > There's a lot of developer changes that are of interest. In particular, StrictMode is supposed to help you figure out if you're unnecessarily using network/cpu. > 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) > > To run a 60 fps animation, you only have 16 ms in your main thread (UI thread) callbacks before you stutter an animation. Or 5000 ms to bring up an ANR dialog. Anything between 16 ms and 5000 ms is "janky", though (unresponsive, not pleasant). > > Given that the disk (and especially the network) can take longer than 16 ms, StrictMode helps you find places where you unknowingly use one of them. It's often the case that you didn't hit the disk directly, but some API you used hit the disk via IPC calls across 2 or more processes. And that process might have to wait for the system-wide yaffs lock (on devices that use yaffs) before it could even start the read/write. And it it's a write, the flash chip (whether MTD or a FTL emulating a block device) may have to do some slow GC, making some writes slower than others. > > In any case, you should get off the UI thread if there's any risk you might take longer than 16 ms. > > Gingerbread has hundreds of such fixes using data we've collected from internal dogfooding. We setup our dev builds to write all disk/network violations to the DropBox (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/DropBoxManager.html) and setup our dev builds' DropBox to upload them to servers to run mapreduces over. Every hour we'd have a new dashboard of the top offenders (count, total latency jank, etc), fixing as many as possible both in apps and in the system (various core services, providers, etc). > > I saw the transition slowly, but friends who have switched right from Froyo (which was already pretty fast!) to Gingerbread tell me that it's noticeably smoother & more responsive across the board. A large part of that is also the concurrent Garbage Collector in Dalvik. > > Anyway, bunch of exciting stuff in Gingerbread. > > (this comment is long... I should write a blog post.) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/eh2jf/gingerbread_aka_android_23_is_out/c181i0o/ · 181 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gleb Budman** (u/glebbudman) in r/sysadmin, Sep 22, 2015 · The why Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3ly8zw/backblaze_takes_on_amazon_s3_with_dirtcheap_data/cvac31t/ · 93 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gleb Budman** (u/glebbudman) in r/IAmA, Mar 28, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Been using your service for about 2 years now (I think) and absolutely love it! That being said... What would you say is the biggest weakness of your service? > 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 company, basically no one was backing up data, despite solutions existing for over a decade. (Some for multiple decades.) > > Talking with people we heard everyone say the reason they weren't backing up was that it was too hard...and figuring out what to backup was the hardest part. Thus, we came up with the "enter your email/password and you're done" approach where we backup all data. > > However, some users...typically those who've been accustomed to existing solutions...beg us to add the ability to pick files and folders. They see this as a huge weakness. We continue to not do this because it would make the product more complicated for the other 99% of people who don't want to manage their backups every day. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/rhrt4/comment/c45x5gk/ · 13 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Gleb Budman** (u/glebbudman) in r/IAmA, Mar 28, 2019 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > Any plans to add an SSD tier? Obviously the cost per GB is much higher but it's getting lower and lower all the time. Would save a bunch on electricity but I am sure that's not enough to justify the cost yet. > 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 save some on electricity, but unfortunately they don't come even close to paying for themselves. We've thought about creating an SSD tier for performance, but the limits to latency is the Internet, not the HDD. > > gleb @ backblaze > > ​ Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/b6lbew/were_the_backblaze_cloud_team_managing_750/ejlc7po/ · 17 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Paulus Schoutsen** (u/balloob) in r/homeassistant, Nov 15, 2024 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Development of HA began in the Netherlands and still has a strong community of users based there > Small correction. I am Dutch, but I started Home Assistant while living in San Diego, California :-) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1grx7kz/why_is_everyone_german/lx9y77d/ · 157 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Paulus Schoutsen** (u/balloob) in r/homeautomation, May 11, 2021 · The why Replying to the post "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 to implement a proprietary Home Assistant API. > > Our goal is an open home without vendor lock-in, we don't want to be part of this problem. We want vendors to create an open API that can be added to Home Assistant and other home automation projects alike. > > Some internals of Home Assistant are accessible via the API and are being misused by this add-on. It will not be a good experience. > > /u/ewelinkapp, please reach out to me and let's set up a call and I can help give some pointers on where to start building an official integration. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/n9vbed/ewelink_official_home_assistant_addon_released/gxqumny/ · 98 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Paulus Schoutsen** (u/balloob) in r/homeassistant, Feb 23, 2024 · The why Replying to the post "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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1axynwo/people_talk_a_lot_about_wife_approval_factor_but/krrag4x/ · 106 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Matthew Prince** (u/EastDakota) in r/IAmA, May 2, 2014 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > Hi Matt, What were some of the challenges you faced when starting up CloudFlare in the beginning? If you could sum up the first few years of CloudFlare in one word, what would it be? > 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 Tweet the other day that every entrepreneur's superpower is naivety. I think that's right. Had we known all of what was really involved in building CloudFlare I don't think we'd have ever gotten started. But I'm glad we did and enjoy coming to work every day to build something that is literally help build a better Internet. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/24kjm2/comment/ch821zl/ · 3 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sam Altman** (u/samaltman) in r/IAmA, Jul 10, 2015 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > About how many emails do you send / receive per day? > I receive about 1200 and send about 200. When people ask me what my job entails I just say "email". Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/csz491j/ · 582 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sam Altman** (u/samaltman) in r/ChatGPT, Oct 31, 2024 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Will you be using ChatGPT to answer these questions? > sometimes, yes. > > can you tell? Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ggixzy/ama_with_openais_sam_altman_kevin_weil_srinivas/luq8ak2/ · 1,342 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sam Altman** (u/samaltman) in r/singularity, Sep 26, 2023 · Funny Replying to the post "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…) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/16sdu6w/rip_jimmy_apples/k2aroaw/ · 917 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sid Sijbrandij** (u/sytses) in r/gitlab, Jun 3, 2018 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > Already seeing a #movingtogitlab trend on Twitter. > Awesome, I started https://twitter.com/movingtogitlab a few hours ago while driving as a passenger, amazing how fast things can go. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gitlab/comments/8o3tcq/github_being_acquired_by_m_good_or_bad_news_for/e00xekv/ · 5 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Dave Teare** (u/dteare7) in r/1Password, Sep 23, 2021 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Serious question: (and this is my opinion, of course) you guys are know for reading vocal, passionate, or rude user feedback and responding with long form emoji laden responses that tend to further inflame those responses of late. I know you have an internal style guide… > 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 I’m happy you asked. > > First and foremost, 1Password exists today because of our customers. That’s true in many ways but the important bit for this conversation is word-of-mouth marketing. I think it’s fair to say that /u/roustem suck at marketing and if it wasn’t for our customers talking about us and recommending 1Password to their friends we wouldn’t have had the customers needed to make this our full time gig. > > What we found most effective to spur word of mouth was great customer support. By answering people quickly, with relevant information, and enough flair to build a connection, we found people were more than excited to go tell their friends. And not only that, we learned what customers needed so we could make 1Password better. > > Interestingly enough, that’s exactly how 1Password for Business came to be. We heard from many customers who had been using 1Password for years in their personal lives and then telling us they wanted to use it at their work. > > As we expanded the company (feels odd to say that as at the time we were going from 2 to 10 while nowadays we’re at 500) we needed to instil this approach into the new folks joining us. We had some guides and such and the main message there was to “kill ‘em with kindness” and yeah, that’s my name which shows you how great I am at marketing. 😂 > > Anyways as we continued to grow and the questions got more and more diverse we codified a lot of the flows, which could be called an “internal style guide” as you named it. Here’s a screenshot of the homepage of our spell book (think Hogwarts): > > https://dsc.cloud/28e490/pb-SXNql8uqEL-VMgyxgJtkCes.png > > And here’s a screenshot of one of the guides that walks through one of the more controversial situations as I think in ties into your question about handling users that are not happy and who we might not be able to win over: > > https://dsc.cloud/28e490/CleanShot-2021-09-23-at-13.55.27-2x-0muCuj81R028.png > > In that particular this article tries to teach our folks about standalone vaults and our approach for helping them. It then has a set of sample emails and responses, and sample responses to responses. As you might imagine in the case of people having troubles syncing their standalone vaults our recommendation is to move over to a membership where everything is taken care of for them. > > Certainly a controversial path for some but for the most part people just want their app to work and have their data everywhere they go and are happy to make the transition. > > Now to your point not everybody will be happy there and can what do we do then? We could certainly say “don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out” but we don’t. Instead we try our best to listen and see if we can find ways to help users. To see if we can build a connection or some common ground that will give us a safe place to build a relationship before proceeding to tackle the contentious issue that has them upset. > > At the end of the day people love 1Password and they react vehemently when they worry we might break their workflows or go in a direction they don’t like. With all the passion things can be said that are hurtful or rude as you say, and it’s human nature to want to fight fire with fire, but we’re professionals and in the fire fighting business professionals use water. Part of the long-form emoji-laden responses are an attempt to find a way to around the fire, build a connection, and add some humanity to the situation. > > And as for emojis specifically, they’re awesome. 😍 I love how they bring some colour and levity to the world. And I especially love the approach Reddit uses with their Awards and hope something like that gets codified into Unicode someday. 🙏🏻 > > I hope that helps explain a bit about how we handle things behind the scenes and give some context to our approach. > > Take care and stay safe. ❤️ > > ++dave; > 1Password Founder Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/psn0do/were_the_team_behind_the_new_1password_browser/hdzsoro/ · 13 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Dave Teare** (u/dteare7) in r/1Password, Sep 23, 2021 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Why did you abandon the share sheet? You have completely alienated all of your standalone vault users without any prior warning and with having previously stated that, while moving forward you would not support them, you would allow users to continue using them in the older… > 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 edge technology when Apple introduced it in iOS 8 and at the time it was the only way we had to fill in Safari and other webviews. But it was limited in what it could do and when Apple introduced Password Autofill in iOS 12 we jumped on it and never looked back. > > Before going on I’d like to highlight exactly what functionality is available and what is no longer available for standalone vault users specifically. > > With [Password Autofill](https://support.1password.com/ios-autofill/) you can fill usernames & passwords for logins, including having the current TOTP value copied to your clipboard for extra convenience on sites with 2FA enabled. You can also save and create logins within 1Password. > > Password Autofill is super convenient as iOS highlights it right above the keyboard for easy discovery and activation. Now as good as Password Autofill is there were a few things that the API didn’t empower us to do, namely: > > * Fill sign-in forms with more than 2 fields > * Fill credit cards > * Fill addresses from identities > > Overall it was a great trade and we could have retired the share action when Password Autofill came available in iOS 12 but it wasn’t hurting anything and wasn’t in the way so we left it. > > We did however stop maintaining it as it was becoming quite long in the tooth. Custom share actions were added by Apple way back in 2014 and support for the action extension was introduced in iOS 8. The first commit to our open sourced [app extension repo](https://github.com/AgileBits/onepassword-app-extension) was on [July 20th, 2014](https://github.com/agilebits/onepassword-app-extension/commits/master?after=04ca2a04e64fbb3ee26ed803edb6e5362d436856+769&branch=master). 4 years later Password Autofill was introduced in iOS 12 and it was a wonderful addition to iOS and superseded the share extension. As great as the share action was 7 years ago, it was well past time to retire it. > > Now I can definitely see how you could want us to continue postponing the share sheet’s retirement. We’ve postponed it for a few years already so why not another year or two? We could have done that but maintaining three different features that all serve the same purpose (Password AutoFill, share sheet, and now the new Safari web extension) is a big ask. Something had to give and since the share sheet offers the least functionality that isn’t covered by the other two it was time to bid it adieu. > > It would have been great to have more notice here and on desktop this would have been a lot easier as we have much more flexibility with upgrades. There we can prompt users if they’d like to upgrade and then install the new version when they’re ready. It’s really nice to have that flexibility and it helps a ton with communication as it allows us to not only highlight a change but also make sure its shown to the people who need to see it. I’d love to have this flexibility everywhere but unfortunately that’s not the world we live in. > > One of the places where we screwed up is we didn’t include this in the release notes for 7.8.0. That was an oversight and we updated the notes in 7.8.1, which was just published to the store last night. > > Now as for the new 1Password for Safari extension, it does indeed require a 1Password membership to use. There’s a plethora of reasons for that, both technical and business and support related, but at the end of the day we tried to make the transition easier by offering a license trade in. Simply [email us your license](mailto:support@1password.com?subject=Upgrading%20to%20a%201Password%20Membership) and **receive 50% off your first 3 years**. That’s for our pay-as-you-go (either monthly or yearly) approach. > > Some people would prefer to only pay when they explicitly authorize it and if this sounds like you please ask for the gift card option when you write in. We set up a special deal license holders can purchase a $99 gift card worth $150 of credit (only available on [1Password.com](http://1password.com/) , not .eu or .ca), allowing you to use 1Password for over 3 years. Once those 3+ years are up you can choose whether or not to pay again. No recurring or automatic payments will be taken and your data will always be available whether you renew or not. > > Before I sign off one thing I’d like to add is that it would have been much simpler for everyone had we been able to release 1Password 8 as a new SKU in the App Store with this change and all our other goodies that we have planned there. That would have brought me incredible joy and indeed this is exactly what we wanted to do. It’s too early to lift the curtain up too far but the hard reality is we needed to make adjustments to the schedule that resulted in 1Password 8 for iOS being pushed out to next year. When 1Password 8 comes out we will be going through the incredibly difficult process of releasing a new SKU and asking users to manually install the new release. We did this back in the day for 1Password 4 and while super painful for everyone involved, we will be doing it again for the exact same reasons as we did then: we don’t want to take away your existing features. It would have helped a lot if we had a new SKU this week but it just wasn’t something we were able to do in the timeline we found ourselves with. We had 72 working days from Apple announcing web extensions on iOS at WWDC in June to launch day and we needed all of them and frankly would have been thankful for more. > > This extension did everything we ever wanted to do in Safari on iOS (well, almost!) and Password Autofill handled the vast majority of features that the share action and was easier to use so we elected to retire the share action early in the development process. > > I know this isn’t the decision you wanted us to make but I hope this helps explain why we made the choices we did. > > Take care and stay safe. 🙏🏻 > > ++dave; > 1Password Founder Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/psn0do/were_the_team_behind_the_new_1password_browser/hdzgz6y/ · 14 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Dave Teare** (u/dteare7) in r/1Password, Nov 16, 2021 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > After using LastPass for 10+ years I just switched to 1Password because it seems like the apps on both Windows and Android are much more polished and functional, the added security layer of a private secret key, and how engaged the company seems to be with the users on reddit… > Welcome aboard! 🙌🏻 > > I'll leave the Ethereum gifts to /u/_roustem and stick to Reddit Gold for my gifts. 😃 > > ++dave; Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/qv99u2/1password_8_for_windows_is_here/hkv1l1o/ · 31 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/overcast, Mar 20, 2026 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Ahh, the days I used to rack Xserves and Xsan's. Would have preferred lifting Mac minis instead. > The datacenter offered me a forklift. I laughed. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1ryvni2/accidental_data_centre/obhz4qr/ · 42 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/pics, Aug 4, 2011 · Funny Replying to the post "Great Scott!". > I took this picture, and you've stolen it without credit. > > Original, posted yesterday: http://instagr.am/p/JQdb6/ > > Thanks a lot. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/j8sup/great_scott/c2a3ur7/ · 969 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/overcast, Oct 11, 2026 · Fixed it Replying to the post "Nitpicky Details Feature Request: Chime when skipping a chapter". > I actually hired a sound designer recently to solve exactly this problem. Soon. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1x3iy6x/nitpicky_details_feature_request_chime_when/pfbmcic/ · 42 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marco Arment** (u/marcoarment) in r/overcast, Jul 23, 2026 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > I love you Marco. > "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) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1v4lff6/202671_released_higher_speeds_watch_audio_effects/ozcaqef/ · 39 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Joel Spolsky** (u/spolsky) in r/IAmA, Apr 20, 2011 · The why Replying to a redditor: > You have a very aggressive interview process. What are your feelings on self-taught developers? Do you only hire devs with Computer Science degrees? > I don't care if someone has a computer science degree... I don't think it is much of a predictor of programming ability. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gulpx/iama_cofounder_of_stack_exchange_and_fog_creek/c1qelk6/ · 65 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Rand Fishkin** (u/randfish) in r/gamedev, Nov 26, 2024 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > I'm keen to hear what your background is and how you got people to invest. Tell us more about your personal story. > 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 2018, I started another company (also in B2B marketing SaaS world) called SparkToro. It uses an LLC model very similar to the one I posted above. That's been a far more joyful and positive experience; we've kept the team small, and the business profitable. > > Then, in 2020, during Covid lockdowns, I got obsessed with the indie video game world, and decided to start down this path. More details in the blog post, but long story short is I/we spent the first 3 years making a lot of mistakes before eventually forming a 5-person studio and making significant progress the past year. I still run and work mostly full-time on SparkToro, but my 4 cofounders at Snackbar are full-time on that business. My job is mostly setting the big picture direction, getting us funding, and making sure all the operations stuff runs smoothly so everyone else can concentrate on their day-to-day work. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1h0jh1m/just_raised_215m_please_steal_our_game_studio/lz4cxue/ · 18 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jack Conte** (u/jackconte) in r/AMA, Jan 22, 2021 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Why and how do you keep making this same mistake over and over again? Bad idea. Communicate to only a few select users. Communicate extremely poorly to the rest of the users. Backlash, chaos, screaming, apology, REPEAT. Why does the repeat part keep happening? And what happened… > 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 -- fixing this product feedback and communication loop with the community. I’ve mentioned this before but our new cpo is starting in a month, and this is going to be his top priority, too > > the “patrons pay the fees” rollout (which was a terrible) was the worst product rollout in the history of the company. One thing we learned from that is to not roll out products without doing a ton of patron and creator research -- both qualitative and quantitative. A change we made at that point was to give creators and patrons a heads up months in advance of any changes, including giving folks visibility into problems that we’re solving and options for solutions that we’re exploring. The blog post that went out yesterday was one of those communications -- the intention was to let folks know that we are currently working on the billing problem and exploring ways to fix the associated problems. But it wasn’t the right communication -- it was written as if it was final, it didn’t properly explain that we’re in the research phase, and it framed the work as a solution rather than letting folks know we’re exploring a bunch of options for how to solve this. Not ok -- we have to do better than that. > > ive already posted more specifically about what we’re going to do to get better at communication, but i’ll copy paste it here for reference: > > a regular, live hangout with our creators and me and other patreon executives > > a recurring creator newsletter from our product team about roadmap updates > > An audit and optimization of the process we use to gather feedback from our creators to ensure it’s actionable for the Product team > > members of Patreon’s executive team will commit time each month to connecting with creators in our Discord community > > our new CPO starts mid-Feb. and solving product feedback loop with creators will be at the top of his priority list. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/l2vwvo/comment/gk92zod/ · 3 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jack Conte** (u/jackconte) in r/Music, Apr 10, 2013 · Funny Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1bzklq/my_collegeroommate_with_an_ironic_beard_just/c9byimv/ · 105 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jack Conte** (u/jackconte) in r/AMA, Sep 3, 2020 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > How can artists develop discipline instead of relying on motivation? Huge fan of your work Jack! > 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 rule that he WOULDN'T STAND UP from the piano until he had a FINISHED draft. Verse, chorus, intro, outro, lyrics, bridge, EVERYTHING. it was a rule. so after a year or so, he had a bunch of FINISHED songs, instead of scraps of dismembered verses, or a chorus here or there. This is such a great rule. i love it. > > 2) work to publish. this is a mentality that i've adopted in the last few years -- it's a scrappiness of work style and a biased toward action when it comes to work habits. i work with the intention of \*publishing.\* what do i need to do in order to get this published? not necessarily "finished" because i don't feel like i can ever "FINISH" a piece of art. but what do i have to do to get it published? in other words, how much more until i can upload it?! thinking of it that way, instead of trying to FINISH it, has really helped me write the next sentence, paint the next stroke, design the next slide, build the next synth, record the next drum track, etc. instead of spending a day deciding whether it should be blue or teal, i try to figure out what i need to do in order to publish. this has helped me work more efficiently and increase my volume of output -- which strangely, and counter intuitively, has also increased the QUALITY of my work, because my feedback cycles are faster, and i learn faster about what resonates with my audience and what doesn't. work to publish -- that's been the best mentality shift for me. > > 3) i separate my creative work into TWO buckets: 1) stuff to do when I'm inspired, and 2) grunt to do when i'm not inspired. While I'm working, I keep a list of all the things that are bugging me that are essentially grunt work. "Slide 10 is poorly designed and needs a revamp" or "the kick drum isn't popping out enough" or "the mix of the vocal track isn't cutting through enough." These are not creative tasks as much as they are technical TODOs. And when I'm uninspired, I CRANK THROUGH THAT SHIT. It keeps me super productive, even when i'm not feeling CREATIVE and inspired. Does that make sense? then invariably, what happens is that while i'm working on some technical task, my mind gets bored and starts inventing things, like a melody or lyric or new type of sound design, or a creative way of communicating a feeling. Then, INSTANTLY, when i feel inspired, i switch from plowing through technical TODOS and shift gears into creative imagination-based work. that way, i stay productive the whole time, even when i'm not feeling "inspired." all you gotta do is separate your work into two buckets. > > 4) find your inspiration system. i've found that there are some things that i can consume that just LIGHT me up. like, for example, when i listen to the band The Battles, my brain starts firing a million miles per minute, and i get hyper creative. recently, i've been reading a book by jack welch, the famous former GE CEO. when i read that book, i feel INSPIRED to be a better leader and a positive manager. so what's your system? what's the piece of art, writing, podcast, whatever that you can consumer that gets your juices flowing? find it, and book time to consume it right before you start your creative work time. it works wonders! > > hope that helps Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/im17dq/howdy_reddit_im_jack_conte_ceo_of_patreon/g3wesri/ · 73 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Justin Kan** (u/JustinKan) in r/IAmA, Jan 5, 2021 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > What is your technical background? > I was a shitty self taught programmer. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kr63rg/i_am_justin_kan_cofounder_of_twitch_worlds/gi8244i/ · 1,205 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Luis von Ahn** (u/vonahn) in r/AskReddit, Feb 23, 2013 · Funny Replying to the post "What are the best websites for NOT wasting your time?". > I made a site called [Duolingo](http://duolingo.com). It's free language education for the world! We think it's good for not wasting your time :) The subreddit is [/r/duolingo](http://reddit.com/r/duolingo). > > Edit: Thanks for the gold!!! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/191ibc/what_are_the_best_websites_for_not_wasting_your/c8k1db5/ · 2,990 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Luis von Ahn** (u/vonahn) in r/IAmA, May 29, 2013 · The why Replying to a redditor: > crappy language learning software What exactly are the reasons that you find most language learning software deficient, and how does DuoLingo make up for these shortcomings? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fa3nu/iama_scientist_and_entrepreneur_named_luis_von/ca89ks9/ · 603 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Luis von Ahn** (u/vonahn) in r/AskReddit, Jan 5, 2014 · Funny Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1uff1f/reddit_do_you_know_any_other_websites_i_could/cehnmed/ · 535 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Stephen Wolfram** (u/StephenWolfram-Real) in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2019 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > Do you see working from home to be a more common and expected thing in the future? > 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 I don't like people, but somehow I find I'm more productive at home. Back in the day (~1980) I worked at home by having a dumb terminal connected to an acoustic coupler continuously dialed up to a computer. [Remarkably, it glitched only about every 6 months...] > > At my company, perhaps half our people work at home, scattered around the world. (And some seem to travel randomly from place to place :) ) I'm not sure if it works well for everyone, but for the kind of get-things-done people we like, it seems to work well. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/axf32h/i_am_stephen_wolfram_founder_ceo_of_wolfram/eht8ct1/ · 436 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Stephen Wolfram** (u/StephenWolfram-Real) in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2019 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > I've read before how you're an enthusiast about keeping "personal analytics" and I noted that you touched on that in your recent essay/post. What have been the most useful personal analytics that you've tracked? And, if I may ask a follow-up to that: What have been the most… > 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, I find my real-time dashboard of email backlog as a function of time pretty helpful. Oh, and I also find my count-up timer of how long I've been asleep useful. Other personal analytics I end up accumulating, and then look at if I have a specific question. > > Actually, there's another thing: I've noticed that a day or two before I get sick with a fever, my heart rate seems to go up. However, in an example of how difficult medical science can be, I've (happily) only gotten sick 3 times in the last 3 years or so since I've been continuously measuring my heart rate. The first two times I saw this effect. But the most recent time I don't think I did, though it was hard to tell because other things were affecting my heart rate... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/axf32h/i_am_stephen_wolfram_founder_ceo_of_wolfram/eht7vip/ · 1,069 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Andy Yen** (u/andy1011000) in r/ProtonMail, Aug 27, 2026 · Behind the scenes Replying to the post "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 staff can't even enter without health risk. > > I shared a few more details on X: [https://x.com/andyyen/status/2092797856880975887](https://x.com/andyyen/status/2092797856880975887) > > tl;dr, We knew about this potential failure mode, but not prioritized due to super low probability, but Murphy's law.... Servers are safe, but we couldn't do automated failover, so full recovery unfortunately took over an hour. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1vzdzhg/frankfurt_datacenter_rn/p64wssj/ · 576 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Andy Yen** (u/andy1011000) in r/ProtonMail, Sep 6, 2025 · The why Replying to the post "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 combinations we maintain now, Proton will generally try to grandfather existing users forever so we don't raise or change prices for existing customers who don't modify their subscription. > > Proton is not primarily profit driven (the Proton Foundation is non-profit), so we do this as long as its financially viable. That's why our oldest plan, Proton Plus, is still the same price as it was when introduced in 2016, although we come under more pressure now from 9 years of inflation and the Swiss franc now being 25% stronger compared to the dollar that many users pay us with. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1n9lk0u/when_is_2_year_unlimited_plan_coming_back/ncpa1p6/ · 102 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Andy Yen** (u/andy1011000) in r/ProtonMail, Mar 31, 2026 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Proton Limited > I get the sentiment, but we're not going to be going for this one... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1s93bgh/what_should_we_rename_proton_unlimited_to/odljah9/ · 106 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Josef Průša** (u/josefprusa) in r/prusa3d, Jul 12, 2019 · Funny Replying to the post "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 ... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/ccbryv/prusa_big_volume_printer_do_you_think_it_is/etlvog1/ · 228 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jesse Vincent** (u/obra) in r/MechanicalKeyboards, Jun 15, 2015 · The why Replying to a redditor: > "I wanted a good keyboard and there weren't any out there." Jesus Christ, could you be any more pretentious? > 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 the closest. I've bought and tried a LOT of keyboards https://www.flickr.com/photos/obra/sets/72157632594731205 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/39x69c/deleted_by_user/cs7bxw6/ · 31 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jesse Vincent** (u/obra) in r/programming, Jul 5, 2010 · Funny Replying to the post "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? Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cm4rt/the_definitive_guide_to_the_language_wars/c0tkb4e/ · 44 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jesse Vincent** (u/obra) in r/Android, Mar 7, 2011 · Funny Replying to the post "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 on my phone. And it has a big gorgeous screen. But a 10" tablet doesn't fill a void in my life. And the Xoom doesn't feel magical. > > The last straw was that it doesn't charge over USB. At all. > > It's going back to Verizon today. > > Now, my Galaxy Tab 7". You'll get that when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/fyxwz/with_negative_reviews_of_the_xoom_from_ars/c1joqbt/ · 18 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Lisa Su** (u/AMD_LisaSu) in r/Amd, Mar 2, 2017 · AMA answer Replying to a redditor: > u/AMD_LisaSu What is your favorite thing to do outside of working? > Golf and drinking good red wine! :-) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_radeon_and_other/def7fed/ · 807 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Lisa Su** (u/AMD_LisaSu) in r/Amd, Mar 2, 2017 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Will it be possible to buy one of those Ryzen jackets sometime soon? > 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. :-) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_radeon_and_other/def8t6y/ · 730 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Palmer Luckey** (u/palmerluckey) in r/oculus, Mar 31, 2016 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > I don't think he's allowed to unfortunately. He's got bosses now too. > 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 knowing it is solid, true, and finalized. Until I can do so, the best I can do is remind people that I will get them information as quickly as I can. > > On the rare occasions when things still change, even when they change for reasons out of my control, I get crucified anyway. Sometimes that means updates have to wait until things get locked down, and sometimes that means waiting a little longer to give everyone good info. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4crwxt/mr_palmer_i_know_youre_reading_these_threads_come/d1l2dm3/ · 757 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Palmer Luckey** (u/palmerluckey) in r/oculus, Mar 21, 2016 · Owned it Replying to the post "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 to post some workarounds - we are still in the process of rolling out our support pages, don't take anything as final yet. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4bd31n/oculus_software_and_vr_applications_must_be/d18dw80/ · 564 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Bill Gates** (u/thisisbillgates) in r/IAmA, Feb 27, 2018 · AMA answer Replying to a redditor: > Hi Mr. Gates! Do you ever like, just randomly get up when you're home and make yourself a peanut butter sandwich? Or do you have people do that for you? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80ow6w/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/dux5pxr/ · 15,358 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Mark Cuban** (u/mcuban) in r/wallstreetbets, Feb 2, 2021 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > Hi Mark! I love you on Shark Tank! My question is what advice to you have for people following their dreams and starting from the beginning again? Thanks so much! :-) > 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 Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/lawubt/hey_everyone_its_mark_cuban_jumping_on_to_do_an/glqfokv/ · 10,173 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Barbara Corcoran** (u/barbaracorcoran) in r/IAmA, May 20, 2015 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > What is the biggest mistake you see small businesses making? What advice would you give to avoid this mistake? > 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 all young business is self-doubt. The little poisonous voice inside all of us that whispers “don’t go there. You can’t do it. Don’t take the chance.” It took me 20 years to kill that voice and set myself free. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/36mwvs/i_am_barbara_corcoran_of_abcs_shark_tank_prior_to/crfc9ko/ · 310 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Julie Uhrman** (u/JulieUhrman) in r/IAmA, May 3, 2013 · Owned it Replying to a redditor: > Support Ticket #5465 - March 26th 2013 "Thanks, dotalchemy! Your shipping address has been updated. We will begin shipping this week. Though it'll take a few weeks to ship all consoles, you will receive an email confirmation with tracking number once yours is on its way. Best,"… > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1dmykb/hey_reddit_we_are_ouya_founderceo_julie_uhrman/c9rwghz/ · 54 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Vitalik Buterin** (u/vbuterin) in r/ethtrader, Jan 18, 2021 · Personal story Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/kzq662/the_origin_of_eth_is_quite_strange/gjptroe/ · 582 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Migicovsky** (u/erOhead) in r/pebble, Sep 17, 2015 · Owned it Replying to the post "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 some Pebble Time inventory. Sorry to the deal hunters, the mistake has been corrected :) > > Target is and will continue carrying Pebble Time and is launching Pebble Time Steel shortly, it's selling very well there and we planning for a great holiday season in retail. I'm personally excited to see our new POP display roll out in Best Buy and Target in October... Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/3l9f7o/targets_pebble_time_clearance_what_does_it_mean/cv51a50/ · 76 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Eric Migicovsky** (u/erOhead) in r/pebble, Apr 11, 2022 · The why Replying to a redditor: > Pebble Time did not succeed because in a quest for huge growth we attempted to expand beyond our initial geeky/hacker user base and failed to reposition it In 2015, we also doubled our operating expenses in anticipation of future growth. Looking back with hindsight, I should not… > 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 make the call that smartwatches were going to explode and that we had a chance to grow with the market. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/u1c0y5/why_pebble_failed/i4c2mmw/ · 77 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jimmy Wales** (u/jimmywales1) in r/IAmA, Dec 2, 2019 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Is a hotdog a sandwich? > 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 if they make a big issue out of it. :) Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e52r7u/iama_jimmy_wales_founder_of_wikipedia_now_trying/f9hb3fr/ · 559 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Jimmy Wales** (u/jimmywales1) in r/IAmA, Dec 2, 2019 · The why Replying to a redditor: > While WT.Social sounds like a noble idea and I'm excited to check it out, are you at all worried that it will be held back by the fact that the name isn't fun or catchy? I admit it's silly, but sadly this kind of thing matters when trying to attract users. > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e52r7u/iama_jimmy_wales_founder_of_wikipedia_now_trying/f9hhsr5/ · 439 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Mike Cannon-Brookes** (u/mikecannonbrookes) in r/IAmA, Sep 25, 2015 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > What are the most important truths that Australia's starteratti are too afraid to express in public? > 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 are crap". > > 2. That we may never be able to build a viable industry here because we just don't have enough *experienced* talent to help them grow (which is why small firms leave in increasingly worrying numbers). > > 3. Exactly that - that the *best* choice for most startups is to go to the US (not sure I believe it 100%, but few express it publicly). Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3lrvpv/iama_mike_cannonbrookes_cofounder_of_atlassian_ama/cvddfyl/ · 11 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Philip Rosedale** (u/PhilipRosedale) in r/IAmA, Feb 23, 2021 · Personal story Replying to a redditor: > Would you like to return to investing your time with virtual reality and virtual worlds again? What would you do differently? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lqpsvs/i_am_philip_rosedale_founder_of_second_life_and/gohscnv/ · 314 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Rob Malda** (u/CmdrTaco) in r/IAmA, Jul 17, 2012 · The why Replying to a redditor: > Rob, of all the recurring memes that have existed on /. over the years, which do/did you find most irritating? And why? > '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 designed to get the First Post, which created a lot of unnecessary load on our servers in an era when we were pretty starved for resources. > > We solved that for a few years by writing a script that posted an automatic 'First Post' to stories before readers actually saw it. And then a few minutes later, we would remove the robot created post. > > This worked for awhile, but then readers started noticing comments were disappearing, and the system was explicitly designed to never delete a comment... but by then the 'First Post' game had died down, and the moderation system became highly effective at sending them down to Score:-1 almost immediately. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/wplvf/iam_rob_cmdrtaco_malda_founder_of_slashdot_ama/c5fc2ov/ · 236 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Marcin Kleczynski** (u/mkleczynski) in r/technology, Sep 23, 2015 · Fixed it Replying to the post "Malwarebytes is now blocking compromised IP ranges from imgur.". > Marcin from Malwarebytes here! I'm looking into it personally. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3m1tq7/malwarebytes_is_now_blocking_compromised_ip/cvbggh4/ · 621 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Kevin Rose** (u/thekevin) in r/IAmA, Aug 1, 2012 · Early days Replying to a redditor: > When did you "really" start using Reddit? > 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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xhejs/i_am_kevin_rose_founder_of_digg_ama/c5mqiak/ · 72 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Kevin Rose** (u/thekevin) in r/IAmA, Aug 1, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Did you immediately regret posting an AMA? And are you currently closing your eyes hoping it will go away? > Having built Digg, I have a pretty thick skin, this thread is pretty tame actually. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xhejs/i_am_kevin_rose_founder_of_digg_ama/c5mna8k/ · 130 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Kevin Rose** (u/thekevin) in r/IAmA, Aug 1, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > Worst. AMA. Ever. > I'm new to this reddit thing. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xhejs/i_am_kevin_rose_founder_of_digg_ama/c5mn6cz/ · 79 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **James Hoffmann** (u/kingseven) in r/JamesHoffmann, Jan 29, 2025 · Owned it Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesHoffmann/comments/1icszth/hoffmann_aiden_review/m9tbuc1/ · 474 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **James Hoffmann** (u/kingseven) in r/espresso, Apr 29, 2026 · Funny Replying to the post "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. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/1sytd7b/mr_hoffman_youve_ruined_me/oix3j42/ · 951 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Boyan Slat** (u/TheOceanCleanupBoyan) in r/IAmA, Sep 18, 2024 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > What would you say to Mr. Trashwheel of Baltimore, USA? > 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! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fj43pm/im_boyan_slat_the_founder_and_ceo_of_the_ocean/lnr45jq/ · 6 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Boyan Slat** (u/TheOceanCleanupBoyan) in r/IAmA, Sep 18, 2024 · Behind the scenes Replying to a redditor: > Hello Boyan, fellow Dutch engineer here. Is the 7.5B a figure with margins or can we expect the usual (referring to huge projects in general) cost overruns? Im not asking to be snide! 7.5B sounds like a bargain on a problem this scale. I ask because in the video you present a… > 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 low scenarios and the numbers we shared are the average of those scenarios, based on the performance we've achieved today. As shared during the press conf last week, the key way we're working on robustly getting the cost to the lower end of the range is by adding 'hotspot hunting' to the operation. Doing so should get us to the \~4B mark. > > The nice thing about the cleanup operation is that it's modular. It's just copy-pasting the current system. The cost projections are an extrapolation of operating 1 system. Historically, doing one-off projects are the ones sensitive to cost overruns (e.g. nuclear power plants) while modular activities see the opposite: a learning curve. Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fj43pm/im_boyan_slat_the_founder_and_ceo_of_the_ocean/lnr0s5t/ · 12 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sebastian Thrun** (u/sebastianthrun) in r/IAmA, Jun 16, 2012 · Funny Replying to a redditor: > At what point will there be too many classes on Udacity? Also, what is the one class you would like to see be created? Also, thanks for Udacity. > Wow - I love this thread. Thanks for the many suggestions - and keep them coming. You just wrote the roadmap for Udacity! Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v59z3/iam_sebastian_thrun_stanford_professor_google_x/c51j0kq/ · 114 points as of Nov 7, 2026 ### **Sebastian Thrun** (u/sebastianthrun) in r/IAmA, Jun 16, 2012 · Advice Replying to a redditor: > What would you say to people who want to learn to code? What programming languages would you recommend? What programming languages do you know? > 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. > > Of course.... I highly recommend CS101 at Udacity and the subsequent classes. All of them focus on making you learn coding by doing it yourself. 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[u/mcuban](https://www.reddit.com/user/mcuban/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/mark-cuban | | Matt Rogers | [u/NestMatt](https://www.reddit.com/user/NestMatt/) | AMA only | Listed only | | Matthew Prince | [u/EastDakota](https://www.reddit.com/user/EastDakota/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/matthew-prince | | Max Goodman | [u/chromakode](https://www.reddit.com/user/chromakode/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Michal Kovařík | [u/kovarex](https://www.reddit.com/user/kovarex/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/michal-kovarik | | Mike Cannon-Brookes | [u/mikecannonbrookes](https://www.reddit.com/user/mikecannonbrookes/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/mike-cannon-brookes | | Mike Schiraldi | [u/raldi](https://www.reddit.com/user/raldi/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Nathan Adams | [u/Dinnerbone](https://www.reddit.com/user/Dinnerbone/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/nathan-adams | | Palmer Luckey | [u/palmerluckey](https://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/palmer-luckey | | Paul Copplestone | [u/kiwicopple](https://www.reddit.com/user/kiwicopple/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Paulus Schoutsen | [u/balloob](https://www.reddit.com/user/balloob/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/paulus-schoutsen | | Philip Rosedale | [u/PhilipRosedale](https://www.reddit.com/user/PhilipRosedale/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/philip-rosedale | | Rand Fishkin | [u/randfish](https://www.reddit.com/user/randfish/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/rand-fishkin | | Richard Garriott | [u/RichardGarriott](https://www.reddit.com/user/RichardGarriott/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/richard-garriott | | Rob Malda | [u/CmdrTaco](https://www.reddit.com/user/CmdrTaco/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/rob-malda | | Robert Khoo | [u/robertkhoo](https://www.reddit.com/user/robertkhoo/) | AMA only | Listed only | | Ryan Hoover | [u/rrhoover](https://www.reddit.com/user/rrhoover/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Sam Altman | [u/samaltman](https://www.reddit.com/user/samaltman/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/sam-altman | | Scott W | [u/Klonan](https://www.reddit.com/user/Klonan/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/scott-w | | Sebastian Thrun | [u/sebastianthrun](https://www.reddit.com/user/sebastianthrun/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/sebastian-thrun | | Sid Sijbrandij | [u/sytses](https://www.reddit.com/user/sytses/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/sid-sijbrandij | | Steph Ango | [u/kepano](https://www.reddit.com/user/kepano/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Stephen Wolfram | [u/StephenWolfram-Real](https://www.reddit.com/user/StephenWolfram-Real/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/stephen-wolfram | | Steve Huffman | [u/spez](https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/steve-huffman | | Swen Vincke | [u/Swen_Larian](https://www.reddit.com/user/Swen_Larian/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/swen-vincke | | Tim Schafer | [u/TimOfLegend](https://www.reddit.com/user/TimOfLegend/) | AMA only | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/tim-schafer | | Tom Fulp | [u/TomFulp](https://www.reddit.com/user/TomFulp/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/tom-fulp | | Tynan Sylvester | [u/TynanSylvester](https://www.reddit.com/user/TynanSylvester/) | Personal account | Listed only | | Vitalik Buterin | [u/vbuterin](https://www.reddit.com/user/vbuterin/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/vitalik-buterin | | Yishan Wong | [u/yishan](https://www.reddit.com/user/yishan/) | Personal account | https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/yishan-wong | Scores are Reddit's as of Nov 7, 2026. "No posts retrieved" means our pull returned nothing for that account, not that it is inactive.