Steve Huffmann is now confirmed as CEO of Reddit. The one who was co-founder of the same platform, and who has also co-founded the flight and accommodation search Hipmunk, as the new head of Reddit, after the resignation of Ellen Pao.
Sam Altman, part of the Reddit team, confirms in the official statement: «We are very happy to have Steve back. Community and product are the two legs of Reddit, and the board was very focused on finding a candidate who could excel on both, which Steve does. He also has an added value, that of being a co-founder with 10 years of history on Reddit«.
Steve Huffmann He is also a graduate of the Wakefield School in Virginia, where his partner and fellow Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian also hails from. He is today a prominent web and technology guild; in 2011 he was even named among the top 30 of INC. magazine, in its “Under 30” list, which highlights great businessmen and entrepreneurs, especially in areas related to technology.
Huffman’s assignment is part of a series of changes taking place within the company, with the dismissal of community manager Victoria Taylor which was famous among the Reddit community. In that sense, the dismissal generated a lot of anger within the Reddit community, since she was considered a true administrator of the community, especially serving perfectly in the “Ask Me Anything” section – it is worth mentioning that, after the dismissal , the same Reddit for “not listening to them for several years.”
Learn a little more about Reddit:
Reddit is one of the most trafficked websites on the Internet, with more than 100 million visits each time to interact with the platform. It is a website of social bookmarking and news aggregator where users can leave links to web content, as well as vote for or against the links, making them appear more or less prominent (something similar to a discussion map).
Within the entire Reddit network, there are sections called «subreddits“, which focus on a certain topic, including some such as politics, technology or science, as well as some for adults such as NSFW (“Not Safe for Work”, or not suitable for viewing at work).
Reddit has become quite popular and has even been taken as an official medium for some organizations in the world. For example, in April 2014 the Spanish political formation entitled «» became the first political party in the world to officially use this platform to listen to citizens and supporters.
It should be noted that the platform itself is free software As of June 18, 2008, with the exception of the anti-spam parts, all code written for Reddit is freely available on Github.
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