135 Garden Street: Cambridge's role in the creation of Reddit.
When Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian graduated from the University of Virginia in 2005, they were accepted into the first class of the startup incubator Y Combinator, which was operating out of its original East Coast headquarters at 135 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA.
Huffman and Ohanian originally came to the building to pitch a mobile food-ordering app called MyMobileMenu (MMM). Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham rejected the idea, telling them that mobile infrastructure wasn't ready yet.
After the rejection, the founders met with Graham again at his office at 135 Garden Street. Graham suggested they build "the front page of the internet"—a web platform where users could share links*.*
Inspired by that discussion inside the building, the duo officially pivoted. Huffman coded the initial iteration of the site over the next 20 days following feedback from Graham, and the site launched in June 2005.
They lived in Medford at the time, and that's why Medford is listed as Reddit's founding city.