1. Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, which ranks 9th in the top 20 websites in the world as of February 2025.
17 Facts About Steve Huffman
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Steve Huffman co-founded the airfare search engine website Hipmunk, which shut down in 2020.
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Steve Huffman graduated in 2001 from Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia.
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Steve Huffman came up with their original idea, My Mobile Menu, which was intended to allow users to order food by SMS.
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The site's audience grew rapidly in its first few months, and by August 2005, Steve Huffman noticed their habitual user-base had grown so large that he no longer needed to fill the front page with content himself.
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Steve Huffman remained with Reddit until 2009, when he left his role as acting CEO.
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Steve Huffman spent several months backpacking in Costa Rica before co-creating the travel website Hipmunk with Adam Goldstein, an author and software developer, in 2010.
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In 2014, Steve Huffman said that his decision to sell Reddit had been a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations.
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Since returning to Reddit, Steve Huffman instituted a number of technological changes including an updated mobile site and stronger infrastructure, as well as new content guidelines.
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Steve Huffman worked to make the site more advertiser-friendly and led efforts to host videos and images on site.
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Steve Huffman said the site had looked like a "dystopian Craigslist" whose outdated look deterred new users.
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On June 1,2020, Steve Huffman published an open letter as Reddit's CEO, titled "Remember to be Human - Black lives matter", which addressed the topic of racism on the platform.
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On Reddit, Steve Huffman urged redditors to express support for net neutrality and contact their elected representatives in Washington, DC Steve Huffman said that the repeal of net neutrality rules stifles competition.
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Steve Huffman said he and Reddit would continue to advocate for net neutrality.
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Steve Huffman mentors aspiring programmers at coding bootcamps including Hackbright Academy.
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Steve Huffman was an instructor for e-learning courses on web development by Udacity.
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Steve Huffman is on the board of advisors for the Anti-Defamation League's Center for Technology and Society.