breadpig

Breadpig was founded by Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of the social news site Reddit. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, one of Reddit's other co-founders, were searching for expired domains for their yet unnamed website that had the word "read" in them. A search returned "breadpig.com" and the pair bought it purely out of comic value. Huffman imagined the "breadpig" as a "pig with bread wings", and Ohanian doodled the first version.{{cite news|url=http://breadpig.com/legend|title=breadpig: the legend|access-date=2010-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416063520/http://breadpig.com/legend/|archive-date=2010-04-16|url-status=dead}}

breadpig teamed up with Randall Munroe, the author of xkcd, to publish xkcd: volume 0, which contains selected xkcd comics.{{cite news |url=http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/09/10/book/ |date=September 10, 2009 |title=There's an xkcd book!. |author=Randall Munroe}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/business/media/20link.html?_r=1 |date=April 19, 2009 |title=When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper . |author=Noam Cohen |work=The New York Times}}

breadpig calls itself an "uncorporation," which means "in practice" it gives a lot of its profits away to charity. "Rather than following the typical corporate directive of maximizing shareholder wealth, breadpig aims to do interesting (good) things with its profits."{{cite news |url=http://breadpig.com/index.html |title=breadpig - WTF }}

In 2008, breadpig raised over $30,000 from creating and selling LOLmagnetz – magnetic poetry for lolspeak.{{cite news |url=http://breadpig.com/2009/07/22/how-breadpig-made-30000-for-charity-in-2008-selling-magnets-with-lolspeak-in-our-spare-time/ |date=Feb 3, 2009 |title=How breadpig made $30,000 (for charity) in 2008 selling magnets with LOLspeak in our spare time. |author=Alexis Ohanian |access-date=January 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203201125/http://breadpig.com/2009/07/22/how-breadpig-made-30000-for-charity-in-2008-selling-magnets-with-lolspeak-in-our-spare-time/ |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }} In February 2009, breadpig donated $15,000 to the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals{{cite news |url=http://breadpig.com/2009/02/03/breadpig-hands-sfspca-15000-check-from-lolmagnetz-plays-with-puppy/ |date=Feb 3, 2009 |title=Breadpig Hands SF/SPCA $15,000 Check From LOLmagnetz, Plays With Puppy. |author=Alexis Ohanian |access-date=January 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121044211/http://breadpig.com/2009/02/03/breadpig-hands-sfspca-15000-check-from-lolmagnetz-plays-with-puppy/ |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |url-status=dead }} and in October 2009, raised $32,000 for Room to Read to construct a primary school in Laos.{{cite news |url=http://breadpig.com/2009/10/02/we-did-it-you-raised-enough-money-to-build-our-xkcd-school-in-laos/ |date=Oct 2, 2009 |title=We did it! You raised enough money to build our xkcd school in Laos |author=Alexis Ohanian |access-date=December 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223081520/http://breadpig.com/2009/10/02/we-did-it-you-raised-enough-money-to-build-our-xkcd-school-in-laos/ |archive-date=December 23, 2010 |url-status=dead }} breadpig went on to raise $52,700, via the sale of xkcd: volume 0. This money was used for the development of a school room, a reading room, and a local language publishing room, also via Room to Read.{{cite news |url=http://breadpig.com/2010/05/10/how-should-we-donate-53000-of-xkcd-book-profits/ |date=May 10, 2010 |title=How Should We Donate $53,000 of xkcd Book Profits? |author=Alexis Ohanian |access-date=December 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119071119/http://breadpig.com/2010/05/10/how-should-we-donate-53000-of-xkcd-book-profits/ |archive-date=January 19, 2011 |url-status=dead }} As of December 2010, breadpig has raised over $150,000 for charity (including both funds raised, and profits donated).{{cite news |url=https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At0uPwnVKCXWdHZPMXc1U2c1MlZob0ZFY1BLTDRJenc&hl=en |date=Dec 26, 2010 |title=Breadpig Inc, Donations (link to Google Spreadsheet). |author=Alexis Ohanian}}{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/reddit-cofounder-alexis-ohanian-to-join-y-combinator/ |date=Dec 26, 2010 |title=Reddit Cofounder Alexis Ohanian To Join Y Combinator. |author=Michael Arrington}}

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