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The case against Aaron Swartz was like sending someone to jail for checking too many books out of the libraryI closed the doors on my first startup 12 years ago, throughly broke, depressed, and feeling the burden of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of other people’s money. I’ve written about my own struggle with suicide, a failed entrepreneur unsure how to face the world. I’ve never met Aaron Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit who took his own life last week, but he has made me cry and ache in recent days more than I care to admit.
Updated July 21, 20224 min read