#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman

Many founders I interviewed on Mixergy told me about how their
companies virtually disappeared after they sold them. But 4 years
after selling Reddit to Conde Nast, Steve Huffman is so proud of
how much its grown that he’d be happy to still own it. I asked him
to teach me how he grew his community, why some Y Combinator-backed
founders, like him, succeed while others don’t get any traction and
why he never resented his co-founder for getting so much attention.
I also asked Steve about Hipmunk, the travel site he launched which
replaces the spreadsheet-like search results that most travel sites
use with a more useful design.

Steve Huffman graduated from the University of Virginia with a
degree in Computer Science in 2005. Immediately after leaving
Virginia, he founded reddit.com with his college roommate, Alexis
Ohanian.


 
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