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Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian met as first-years in Hancock House. In the spring of their fourth year they drove to Cambridge to pitch a mobile food-ordering idea to a new and untested investor called Y Combinator. It was turned down. On the train home they were called back and told to build something else: a place where people would post links and vote on what mattered.

They launched that June, weeks after graduating — Huffman out of Engineering, Ohanian out of McIntire. For the first months the site looked busy because the two of them seeded it with accounts they had made up themselves. Condé Nast bought the company the following year.