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Steve Huffman

11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 31, 2017 by Steve Huffman · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Aug 31, 2017
Disclosure
Huffman: Early startup idea was inspired by Sheetz touch-screen ordering
“There's an electronic ordering system inside, if I could just convey my order to that machine, the fella inside could be making my sandwich, and then I wouldn't have to wait. And so that was the idea for my mobile menu.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 7:51 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
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Huffman: Never built a website before writing Reddit's first line of code
“I didn't write the first line of code until June, and I had never built a website before, and we were kind of Paul's special projects a little bit, you know, because of how we got into YC,”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 17:20 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
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Huffman: Reddit's first real users came from Paul Graham's essay readers
“So our first real users were actually Paul Graham fans, people who were reading his essays, and that kind of set the tone for the for the early days of Reddit.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 21:25 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017 neutral
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Ohanian: Graham funded founders on condition they abandon their original idea
“We like you to, and if you change your idea, we'll invest.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 13:53 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
What-if
Huffman: Starting Reddit over with perfect hindsight might still fail
“If I went back 10 years ago and knew everything I knew now and had to start Reddit all over again, I don't know if we could succeed.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 50:15 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
Assertion Supported
Early Reddit required all front-page links to be under 24 hours old
“Alexis and I were submitting all the content, and we had a rule back then that all of the content on the front page had to be less than 24 hours old. And the front page was 25 links long. So if there were fewer than 25 links submitted that day, there would be …”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 24:10 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017 bullish
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Huffman: Paul Graham predicted mobile food ordering would end lines
“He said, this will be the end of lines.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 11:40 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
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Huffman: Reddit's first 100 accounts were fake profiles created by the founders
“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.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 20:29 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017 positive
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Ohanian: Reddit founders received $12,000 from Paul Graham for three months
“And this was a chance to basically get 12,000 dollars from an investor we really trusted to just try something for three months.”
Alexis Ohanian Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 15:51 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017
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Huffman: Knew zero percent of Reddit's staff while running Hipmunk
“There was a time when I was at Hitmonk where I knew zero percent of the people who worked at Reddit.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 37:37 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
Aug 31, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Huffman: Reddit co-founders attended therapy together in 2015 to reconcile
“And we actually saw my therapist saw him together.”
Steve Huffman Aug 31, 2017 ▶ 39:29 Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman
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