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I am Sam Altman, lead investor in reddit's new round and President of Y Combinator. AMA! : r/IAmA

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I Am A, where the mundane becomes fascinating and the outrageous suddenly seems normal. EDIT: I have to go do my class at Stanford (http://startupclass.samaltman.com; Paul Graham is speaking today), but will try to answer more questions later this afternoon! EDIT 2: Back. EDIT 3: Ok, I have to go to five hours of non-stop meetings, so I'm going to sign off. Thanks for reading! I put up a blog post here: http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit TL;DR: I'm investing (along with many others) in reddit. We're working on a way to give 10% of our shares from this round to the reddit community. I hope we can increase community ownership over time--I've always thought communities like reddit should mostly own themselves, and that it's time for some innovation around corporate structure here. I'm giving the company a voting proxy on my shares. Also, I'm the President of Y Combinator (though this was a personal investment, not a YC one). Startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and many others (including

Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Hi Sam! Two-part question: To what extent do you think the recent backlash against SV startup culture (e.g. the "Silicon Valley" sitcom and the use of derogatory terms such as "brogrammer") is part of its growing pains, as opposed to actual systemic flaws? With all the hype around SV startups, it's rare to hear from other parts of the world. What do you think about the startup ecosystems in Europe, and outside the US in general? Do they represent undervalued opportunities for American investors? Thanks for the AMA!…

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