Infogami

Infogami appears in Steve Huffman on Reddit’s Origin Story, Sale, and Return as the Y Combinator company associated with Aaron Swartz that merged with Reddit. Steve Huffman says the intended combined vision was broader than Reddit alone, involving lists and webs of structured things.

The merger became strained because Reddit had users and therefore received more attention. In Huffman’s account, Infogami is the organizational context behind his close but later broken relationship with Swartz.

Connections

• Aaron Swartz, Steve Huffman, Reddit, and Y Combinator - people and company context.
• Co-Founder Conflict and Long-Lived Startup Decisions - relationship and consequence concepts.
• User-Powered Content Platform - adjacent product direction that won attention because Reddit had traction.