Reddit's Origin Story and Persistent Path to Product Market Fit

Product Stories is my attempt to write about origin stories of some popular products and cover some of the less covered aspects of startup products. The first product that I have chosen is Reddit — a company that thousands of startups have tried to emulate but always failed to do so. The idea for Reddit was not conceived by its cofounders but Paul Graham (co-founder of Y Combinator) rejected Alexis and Steve’s idea for investment for investment as part of the first batch of startups. He asked them to build something similar and he would give them $10k for the summer to work on it. Even more interesting is that they had not even started work on their “food ordering app” idea.