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Steve Huffman Recognizes His Top One Percent Hires Within Twenty Minutes
“The best hires I've made, like the top one percent, My very favorite people I knew in about the first 20 minutes of our conversation.”
Steve Huffman Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 23:04 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Self-Driving Cars Will Not Be Useful or Adopted in Dense Cities
“And I think by the time that these companies figure it out and make it safe and reliable and this and that, that there'll be other options that just work better. For example, electric bikes and scooters are really, really great. Public transit works really wel…”
Steve Huffman Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 25:11 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Steve Huffman Aims to Scale Reddit to Billions of Users by 2024
“And so what I'm truly excited to do, and hopeful that we can succeed at, is over the next five years, providing that not just for the millions of who use Reddit every day, but for, in the future, billions of people, if not everybody.”
Steve Huffman Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 29:34 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
Assertion Supported
Paul Graham Accepted Reddit Founders Into YC Conditional on a Pivot
“We were not accepted into Y Combinator. And the way Reddit came about was basically Paul told us, hey, we really like you guys. We just don't like that idea. So if you're willing to work on something else, you can be in YC.”
Steve Huffman Oct 25, 2019 ▶ 4:33 20VC: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Scaling Teams; What Works and What Does Not, A CEO's Relationship with Stress and Managing It & How To Structure Internal Decision-Making Effectively
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