Steve Huffman
6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2026 by Steve Huffman · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Mar 20, 2026 positive
Huffman: Reddit is more productive post-COVID without return-to-office policy
“And we are way more productive now than we were before COVID. So you can't convince me that being in the office is the key to productivity. Maybe it is, but I think it's like lever number 10 behind like having a consistent strategy and having good leaders.”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Huffman: Rich Barton urged Reddit to IPO to 'play in big leagues'
“When we were preparing to go public, a person I called a number of times was Rich Barton. He was the founder CEO of Expedia, then Zillow, then Glassdoor. And he had a lot of really good advice for me on Whether to go public? His answer was yes. He's like, do y…”
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Huffman: AI productivity gains will not decrease Reddit's engineering headcount
“No way. No way. No way. We are a building company. And so in order for engineering headcount to go down, we'd have to know everything we wanted to build. So let's say AI makes our engineers 50, a hundred percent, or even 10 X more productive. We'll just build …”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Huffman: Companies must hire top graduates before they permanently leave market
“Also the best new grads, like if you don't hire them as new grads, you will never see them. They will never be on the job market again. They're too valuable to ever let them be on the job market. So if you don't hire them when they're young, you will never see…”
Mar 20, 2026 bullish
Huffman: Reddit built proprietary ad tech and abandoned programmatic networks
“One of the biggest decisions we made around then was we were going to invest in our own ad tech. So our own ad server, our own tracking, our own measurement, all of this. We were small to do that. And we moved off of programmatic. So most websites or platforms…”