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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.