Formative

hi Product Hunt! When we decided to start making original video at Reddit, we didn't want to produce video the way that everyone else produces video. The strongest part of Reddit is our community of communities, so we've set out to make video alongside our audience–the first being r/entrepreneur, for obvious reasons–with their input every step of the way. Today we're announcing FORMATIVE, a collaboration with Google Cloud Platform to discover the stories of eight entrepreneurs and the single moment that forever changed their paths. For me, it was sitting down at a Waffle House and coming to terms with the realization that being a lawyer for the rest of my life wasn't for me–that afternoon I went back to my college roommate Steve and insisted that we start a company together. Today, there would be no Reddit if it weren't for that moment. Help us discover eight great moments by going to the discussion on r/entrepreneur and working with the community to help decide who we should feature. We can't do this without your insight and knowledge, so help us create the best show possible! PS. I think the folks behind our Original Video team here at Reddit will also be around to chat with you. Say hi! You can see their work here: http://upvoted.com/video/neil-de... http://upvoted.com/video/the-sto...

Hi everyone! Really happy to be unveiling this today. We're extremely excited about getting the community to unite around an original series and can't overstate how much we want this to be a collaborative effort. If you're familiar with Small Empires (the show Alexis, Jordan and I did at the Verge) – this will exceed that in beauty and storytelling, so hope you're ready to help us make something awesome.

Yesss, this is awesome, @alexisohanian. As I've said before, my favorite part of the Upvoted podcast is its ability to highlight "unknown" people doing interesting (sometimes amazing things). FORMATIVE seems to be an extension of this.