Breadpig, stylized as breadpig, is a company that produces a variety of items that appeal to
geeks
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, most notably publishing the book ''
xkcd
''xkcd'', sometimes styled ''XKCD'', is a webcomic created in 2005 by American author Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language". Munroe states on the comic's website that the name ...
: volume 0''.
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Breadpig was founded by
Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Kerry Ohanian ( hy, Ալեքսիս Քերի Օհանյան; born April 24, 1983) is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder and executive chairman of the social media site Reddit along with Ste ...
, a co-founder of the social news site
Reddit
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. Ohanian and
Steve Huffman
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, 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.
breadpig teamed up with
Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic ''xkcd''. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006. In addition to publishing a book of th ...
, the author of xkcd, to publish ''xkcd: volume 0'', which contains selected xkcd comics.
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."
In 2008, breadpig raised over $30,000 from creating and selling LOLmagnetz – magnetic poetry for
lolspeak. In February 2009, breadpig donated $15,000 to the
San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and in October 2009, raised $32,000 for
Room to Read to construct a primary school in Laos. 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. As of December 2010, breadpig has raised over $150,000 for charity (including both funds raised, and profits donated).
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Online retailers of the United States
2007 establishments in the United States
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