Steve Huffman

Not to be confused with Steve Hoffman.
Steve Huffman
Born (1983-11-12) November 12, 1983
Education Computer Science
Alma mater University of Virginia
Occupation CEO of Reddit

Steve Huffman (born November 12, 1983) is an American web developer and both the co-founder and CEO of the social networking website Reddit.[1][2] More recently, he co-founded the airfare search site Hipmunk.[3][4]

Career

Huffman, a graduate of Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia, attended the University of Virginia and majored in Computer Science.[5] After college, he teamed up with classmate Alexis Ohanian to start Reddit, which was initially funded by Y Combinator.[5]

Huffman and Ohanian first pitched their idea to Paul Graham from Y-Combinator. He advised and gave his suggestions, changing of what was an app for ordering food, to become Reddit.[6]

Reddit was later acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.[7]

In 2010, Huffman teamed up with Adam Goldstein to create the travel site Hipmunk, with funding also from Y Combinator.[3][4] In 2011, Huffman was named to Inc. magazine's 30 under 30 list.[8] Huffman is also the instructor for "CS253: Web Development", an e-learning course that began on April 2012 offered by online education provider Udacity.[9]

In 2014 Huffman stated that his decision to sell Reddit was a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations.[10]

On July 10, 2015, after Ellen Pao's resignation, Huffman was appointed CEO of Reddit.[2] Huffman expressed that some controversial communities shouldn't be on Reddit, writing "Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."[11] Huffman later stated "we didn’t create reddit to be a bastion of free speech, the concept is important to us." Huffman went on to publish a lengthy statement around objectionable content, creating new policies that would require users to opt-in to seeing some content, and blocking material that encourages "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone."[12][13][14]

References

  1. ↑ "Three Years After Their Acquisition, Reddit Founders Move On". Techcrunch. 2009-10-27.
  2. 1 2 Issac, Mike (July 10, 2015). "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief". New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "About Hipmunk". Hipmunk. 2010-08-01.
  4. 1 2 Leena Rao (2010-08-01). "Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk".
  5. 1 2 Zak Richards. "Unleashing High-Profile, High-Profit Websites".
  6. ↑ Eyerys (2015-08-08). "A Community Of Diversity By Steve Huffman".
  7. ↑ "Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit". 2006-10-31.
  8. ↑ "Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk". Inc.com. 2011-06-27.
  9. ↑ "Udacity CS253 Web Application Engineering". 2012-04-01.
  10. ↑ Matthew Hall (10 Dec 2014). "'Atrocious, mobile sucks': Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman on what site has become". The Age.
  11. ↑ "New CEO: Some People on Reddit ‘Shouldn’t Be Here at All’". Re/Code. 14 Jul 2015.
  12. ↑ "Let's talk content. AMA. : announcements". reddit.
  13. ↑ "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Is Cracking Down On Hateful Content". Fast Company.
  14. ↑ Trisha Thadani, USA TODAY (16 July 2015). "Reddit CEO to discuss site's values, policies in AMA today". USA TODAY.

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