Reddit CEO: Built it. Sold it. Came back to fix it.
Aug12
Huffman and Jobs have more in common than the first name Steve. When Reddit‘s CEO Ellen Pao resigned in 2015, the company’s largest shareholder, Condé Nast, asked its founder Steve Huffman to come back and fill the top spot (like Apple did with Jobs in 1997). Why? Because he’s the only guy in the world who knows Reddit well enough to actually fix it. Huffman had sold the website in 2006 and went on to pursue other things, like the travel website Hipmunk, which he founded in 2010 with Adam Goldstein and funding from Y Combinator. He often stated that selling Reddit…
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