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Not to be confused with Steve Hoffman.
Steve Huffman
Born (1983-11-12) November 12, 1983 (age 40)
EducationComputer Science
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
OccupationCEO 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.[1][2] More recently, he also participated in co-founding the airfare search-engine site Hipmunk.[3][4]

Career

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

Reddit was later acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.[6]

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.[7] Huffman is also the instructor for "CS253: Web Development", an e-learning course that began on April 2012 offered by online education provider Udacity.[8]

In 2014 Huffman said that his decision to sell Reddit had been a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations.[9]

On July 10, 2015, after Ellen Pao's resignation, Huffman was appointed CEO of Reddit.[2] 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."[10] 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."[11][12][13]

On November 23, 2016, Huffman admitted to secretly modifying the contents of thousands of public user comments that he disliked.[14] He directed insulting comments made towards him and modified the contents to replace it with other users he disliked instead. In the midst of the controversy he issued a public response stating:

"Hey Everyone, Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez ” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It’s been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again. Fuck u/spez ."[15]

References

  1. ^ "Three Years After Their Acquisition, Reddit Founders Move On". Techcrunch. 2009-10-27.
  2. ^ a b Issac, Mike (July 10, 2015). "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief". New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  3. ^ a b "About Hipmunk". Hipmunk. 2010-08-01.
  4. ^ a b Leena Rao (2010-08-01). "Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk".
  5. ^ a b Zak Richards. "Unleashing High-Profile, High-Profit Websites".
  6. ^ "Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit". 2006-10-31.
  7. ^ "Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk". Inc.com. 2011-06-27.
  8. ^ "Udacity CS253 Web Application Engineering". 2012-04-01.
  9. ^ Matthew Hall (10 Dec 2014). "'Atrocious, mobile sucks': Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman on what site has become". The Age.
  10. ^ "New CEO: Some People on Reddit 'Shouldn't Be Here at All'". Re/Code. 14 Jul 2015.
  11. ^ "Let's talk content. AMA. : announcements". reddit.
  12. ^ "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Is Cracking Down On Hateful Content". Fast Company.
  13. ^ Trisha Thadani, USA TODAY (16 July 2015). "Reddit CEO to discuss site's values, policies in AMA today". USA TODAY.
  14. ^ Yeung, Ken. http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/23/reddit-ceo-apologizes-for-editing-comments-critical-of-him-following-pizzagate-ban/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. ^ Weingerger, Matt. Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-modifies-donald-trump-the-donald-2016-11. Retrieved 24 November 2016. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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