Steve Huffman
9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 20, 2010 by Steve Huffman · across every show →
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Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Huffman: Reddit might not have survived the 2008 recession independently
“Yeah, I, you know, I wish I still owned Reddit now, and had owned it for the last four or five years, but it would have, for everything to have gone right, for us to have the stomach to survive that economy, I mean, who knows, like, Kanye Nast's umbrella helpe…”
Oct 20, 2010 negative
Oct 20, 2010
Huffman: He cried at his desk before finalizing the Reddit acquisition
“The day before was when all, all the lawyers had agreed, and we basically said, tomorrow we're gonna sign the papers. And I remember I got really emotional that day. I was sitting there at my desk in in Boston, and I just cried.”
Oct 20, 2010 positive
Huffman: Living together for eight years gave Reddit's founders sibling-level trust
“Alexis and I have been friends, like we lived together for eight years through Reddit. So we were, you know, pretty close to being brothers in the sense that, you know, I, we have the same relationship that I have with my sister, which is we can get mad at eac…”
Oct 20, 2010
Huffman: Reddit founders initially thought early moderator qgyh2 was a bot
“I know one of the first outside moderators that sticks in my mind is QGYH too. He was this insane Reddit user. I shouldn't say he was insane. He spent insane amounts of time on the site and we always thought he was a bot for a long time because we would look a…”
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Huffman: He personally moderated r/atheism to keep Reddit welcoming for new users
“While I agree wholeheartedly with their message, I felt like I was kind of the standard bearer for making Reddit seem welcoming for new users, and so people were like, oh, Spez, he's, I guess he's just some sort of devout Christian who just wants to squash our…”
Oct 20, 2010 positive
Huffman: Taking outside capital motivates founders by making it harder to quit
“Taking money from other people is, is a great motivator. Especially for me, it would have been tough, or I should say, it would have been easy for me to walk away from Hipmunk at any point. And I'd be like, Adam, you know, hey, this isn't working out. Let's ta…”
Oct 20, 2010 neutral
Huffman: He burned out repeatedly on early Reddit by lacking work-life balance
“One of the things I learned on Reddit was how to not burn out, or I should say, like, on Reddit, I burned out a couple times. I just wouldn't get any work done for a while, because I just didn't feel like working on the same thing. And, you know, one of the ex…”