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| Born | (1983-11-12) November 12, 1983 (age 41) |
| 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 original co-founder and current CEO of the social networking website Reddit. More recently, he also participated in co-founding the airfare search-engine site Hipmunk.
Career
Huffman is a graduate of Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia, where he majored in Computer Science. After graduating, Huffman teamed up with classmate Alexis Ohanian to start Reddit, which was initially funded by Y Combinator.
Reddit was later acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.
In 2010, Huffman teamed up with Adam Goldstein to create the travel site Hipmunk, with funding also from Y Combinator. In 2011, Huffman was named to Inc. magazine's 30 under 30 list. Huffman is also the instructor for "CS253: Web Development", an e-learning course that began on April 2012 offered by online education provider Udacity.
In 2014 Huffman said that his decision to sell Reddit had been a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations.
On July 10, 2015, after Ellen Pao's resignation, Huffman was appointed CEO of Reddit. Huffman said that some controversial communities shouldn't be on Reddit, writing that "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." Huffman later stated while reddit had not been created as a "bastion of free speech," the concept "is important to us." Huffman later created 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."
Controversy
On November 24, 2016, Huffman admitted that he edited user comments on Reddit by exploiting his administrative access. The reasoning behind the modifications being that Huffman was "trying to unwind" and being sick of "getting called a pedophile constantly" on Reddit. Huffman admits he replaced comments saying "fuck /u/spez" with /r/The_Donald moderators.
Reddit admins are actively discussing banning the subreddit of 200,000 users
References
- "Three Years After Their Acquisition, Reddit Founders Move On". Techcrunch. 2009-10-27.
- ^ Issac, Mike (July 10, 2015). "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief". New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ^ "About Hipmunk". Hipmunk. 2010-08-01.
- ^ Leena Rao (2010-08-01). "Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk".
- ^ Zak Richards. "Unleashing High-Profile, High-Profit Websites".
- "Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit". 2006-10-31.
- "Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk". Inc.com. 2011-06-27.
- "Udacity CS253 Web Application Engineering". 2012-04-01.
- Matthew Hall (10 Dec 2014). "'Atrocious, mobile sucks': Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman on what site has become". The Age.
- "New CEO: Some People on Reddit 'Shouldn't Be Here at All'". Re/Code. 14 Jul 2015.
- "Let's talk content. AMA. : announcements". reddit.
- "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Is Cracking Down On Hateful Content". Fast Company.
- Trisha Thadani, USA TODAY (16 July 2015). "Reddit CEO to discuss site's values, policies in AMA today". USA TODAY.
- McCormick, Rich (November 23, 2016). "Reddit's CEO edited comments that criticized him". The Verge. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- Yeung, Ken (November 23, 2016). "Reddit CEO apologizes for editing comments critical of him following Pizzagate ban". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
- Reddit, Admins (November 23, 2016). "Reddit Admins and CEO actively discuss banning the subreddit /r/The_donald". reddit. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
External links
- Steve Huffman interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
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