"I didn't know who Paul Graham was, but after the talk I said, ""Hey, Dr. Graham,"" and told him it would be worth the cost of buying him a drink if he'd listen to us talk about our start-up."

"He said, ""You came all the way up from Virginia? Sure."" He ended up inviting us to an interview for Y Combinator, which no one had heard of at the time."

"The night of the interview, Paul called me and said, ""I'm sorry, we're not accepting you."" That sucked. Really sucked. So we got drunk. Really drunk."

"""You guys need to build the front page of the Internet."""

"We built Reddit in three weeks. It was just Web links and text submitted by users, with Interesting or Uninteresting buttons that you could click on underneath."

"The acquisition by Condé Nast basically started with a Halloween party, where we met a reporter who introduced me to a freelancer for Wired who told her boss about us."

"Paul was thrilled. We were one of the first start-ups to launch in Y Combinator, and now we were the first significant acquisition."

"""I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less."""

"I believe wealth is a means to an end, and wealth has never made me happy, only comfortable."

"We took a trip to D.C. We went around to senators and representatives and told them our stories. I was invited on MSNBC, then it was other TV shows for two days straight."