Steve Huffman

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 29, 2024 by Steve Huffman · across every show →

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Aug 29, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Huffman: Reddit moderates user behavior rather than user beliefs
“Separating you know, behavior and beliefs. And so we try to spend a lot more time on behavior than we do on beliefs.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 2:38 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 negative
What-if
Huffman: Hipmunk would have succeeded without raising venture capital
“If we had just built that product, we'd built a product in the summer. We had just built that product and run it as a small company. And then maybe sold that or licensed that, that would have been a good business. Instead, you know, raised a bunch of money, ra…”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 24:04 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024
Disclosure
Huffman: Reddit held private analyst earnings calls starting in April 2022
“Since April, 20, 22, we've been running the company as a public company. So close the books fast. You know, no mistakes. Do our board meeting. Do earnings calls with the public company analysts. They just weren't public, but we were able to kind of just get in…”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 28:22 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024
Insight
Huffman: More emotional messaging should be treated as more suspect
“And I think as a general rule of thumb, the more kind of emotional they are, The more suspect the message should be.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 13:46 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 positive
Insight
Huffman: Community platforms cannot be governed purely like democratic countries
“One of the big learnings is we are not a country. You know, we are a community platform, and we're also a business. This is a place that people have to want to be. You don't, you know, by and large, you don't choose where you live on Earth but you can choose w…”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 26:32 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024
Insight
Huffman: Manicuring messages and controlling outcomes creates public distrust
“Because that control, that manicuring the message, that kind of pushing people into the desired outcome is what creates that sense of distrust. That sense of I am being manipulated. I am being controlled. I am being constrained.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 12:36 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huffman: Reddit's strategy during platform crises was to change nothing
“What I later learned when I came back is the strategy at Reddit was don't change anything.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 24:42 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huffman: Reddit Employees Refused to Wear Swag in Public in 2015
“When I came back to the company employees, they wouldn't wear our swag in public”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 0:31 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 positive
Opinion
Huffman: Allowing users to create communities was Reddit's most important feature
“The most important feature we ever built was for users to create their own communities. We didn't build that until 2008, you know, almost three years later.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 21:10 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
Aug 29, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Huffman: Reddit scaled revenue and users without growing team size
“We've been able to grow revenue and users basically without growing the team size which basically means costs have stayed level while we scale the rest of the company.”
Steve Huffman Aug 29, 2024 ▶ 29:37 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on rescuing the social network from the brink (with Reid Hoffman)
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