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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Reddit comes up
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed
- ▶ 32:05 Breezy Griffith I started to get on, uh, blogs, like Reddit blogs, and they started to dig deep looking to see if anyone was putting this thin coat of chocolate on, you know, on fruit, on anything, any sort of center.
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
- ▶ 22:52 Natalie Gordon And then launch was the very beginning of February, 20 11, and there was a really popular discussion board for technologists that works like Reddit called Hacker News, and so I posted to Hacker News, I'm a pregnant hacker, please review my…
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- ▶ 23:18 Ju Rhyu And I started doing research, and I, I just saw all these Reddit threads, I remember, of people talking about these hydrocolloid patches. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:14 Guy Raz All right, so you're, I mean, you get this idea in your head, but you're, of course, you know, doing the corporate thing at Samsung, but, I mean, as you start to think, well, maybe there is something, you go on Reddit boards, chat rooms,…
HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
HIBT Lab! Bored Ape Yacht Club: Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow
- ▶ 29:46 Wylie Aronow Everything from Reddit to Twitter.
HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea
- ▶ 17:50 Andrew Rea And I made the, the video specifically for Reddit, for the food subreddit, because I had been posting there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:17 Guy Raz So you post this video on Reddit, but you still have your day job working in post-production and doing documentary freelance work. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Andrew Rea Once again, I leaned on Reddit. 4 times in the scene
Discord: Jason Citron
- ▶ 53:45 Jason Citron You couldn't, like, you actually really use it quite so much to play, and so come, come April, you know, we were thinking about, like, how do we get this thing to grow, and we had this idea to ask a friend of ours who was sort of in the… 2 times in the scene
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
Coinbase: Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 25:12 Guy Raz Clearly, because I think you guys met, like, on a Reddit site, or, I don't know, Reddit, but some, you met somehow.
- ▶ 33:31 Brian Armstrong I had been putting out the prototype for Coinbase on, and I think he saw it on Reddit. 3 times in the scene
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison (2019)
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 1:06:55 Jack Conte Reddit had dealt with stuff like this.
Dropbox: Drew Houston
- ▶ 18:56 Drew Houston So Hacker News is basically startup news that, it's a startup news site, kind of like Reddit, um, but focused on technology and startups for the most part.
- ▶ 31:10 Drew Houston So the same kind of video that I put together to put on Hacker News, we did another one that was a little more oriented around a broader audience, um, that we put on Reddit and Dig in March, 2 times in the scene
How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
- ▶ 17:26 Morgan DeBaun So, understanding how sub-communities group together on Twitter or Reddit or Instagram, um, even within Facebook groups, that's something that we've used to accelerate our growth is actually really focusing on the niche communities within…
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison
Power Rangers: Haim Saban (2017)
Live Episode! Black Entertainment Television: Robert Johnson
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp
Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
- ▶ 0:27 Steve Huffman And said, you got to go back to Reddit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29 Guy Raz So if you're one of the three hundred million active Reddit users, you probably think of it as this incredible place, a home where you can find your tribe, groups of people talking about the weird stuff you're into. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:48 Steve Huffman And that was the genesis of Reddit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:12 Guy Raz From what I understand, you launched Reddit in June of 2005, like two and a half months later. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 Steve Huffman And that's why the first hundred or so Reddit users were either characters from World of Warcraft or pieces of furniture in our living room. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:54 Guy Raz After Paul Graham wrote that essay and linked to Reddit, was that, is it the moment where it took off? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:57 Alexis Ohanian In a lot of ways came to define my entire experience at Reddit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:51 Guy Raz When we come back, why Alexis and Steve decided to sell Reddit, and how it took a toll on their friendship. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:38 Guy Raz And so around this time, one of the founding partners of Y Combinator, Jessica Livingston, suggested that Alexis go to New York to help spread the word about Reddit. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:08 Steve Huffman Loved Reddit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:06 Guy Raz And you guys were just done with Reddit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:51 Guy Raz Um, in July of 2015, Reddit just goes nuts. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:18 Steve Huffman Um, I really, really loved Reddit and part of me, and it wasn't even kind of a CEO mentality. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 Alexis Ohanian I was like, I'm talking about Reddit.
- ▶ 49:22 Guy Raz So you guys are back at Reddit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:19 Guy Raz You can type my name into Reddit to see it, or you can go to our Twitter handle, at How I Built This, where my team has kindly posted a photo of my arms attached to a parakeet's body.