Steve Huffman (Entrepreneur)

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Steve Huffman (2017)

Steve Huffman (born November 12, 1983 in San Francisco ) is an American web developer and entrepreneur . He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit , a social news and discussion website that is ranked among the top 20 most visited websites in the world. He was also a co-founder of the travel website Hipmunk .

Life

He grew up in Warrenton , Virginia . At the age of 8 he started programming computers. He graduated from Wakefield School in The Plains in 2001 . He studied computer science at the University of Virginia (UVA) and graduated in 2005. In the same year he developed the website reddit.com together with his school friend Alexis Ohanian . Huffman and Ohanian sold Reddit in October 2006 to the media company Condé Nast Publications for a price between 10 and 20 million US dollars. Huffman stayed with Reddit until 2009 when he left his position as acting executive director. In 2010 he founded the travel website Hipmunk together with the author and software developer Adam Goldstein . The investor Y Combinator , who already played an important role in the founding of Reddit , acted as sponsor again .

He returned to Reddit on July 10, 2015 and has since served as managing director of the now outsourced and independent company. Before that, the previous managing director, Ellen Pao , had resigned.

Others

Huffmann lives in San Francisco, advocates net neutrality and is considered a prepper .

Web links

Commons : Steve Huffman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Voice of His Generation: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian fights for a free and open Internet. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Christine Lagorio-Chafkin: Making Flight Search friendlier. June 27, 2011, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved July 15, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Can Steve Huffman Save Reddit From Itself? October 6, 2015, accessed on July 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Christine Lagorio-Chafkin: Steve Huffman Talks About Bringing Reddit Back From the Brink. March 9, 2018, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Reddit flexes its muscle over net neutrality. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Evan Osnos: Survival of the Richest . January 23, 2017, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed July 15, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Huffman, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American web developer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco