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Huffman: Reddit only uses ID-checking verification when coerced by governments
“There's others we use that actually check your ID. I don't love those, but we're compelled or coerced to use them by various governments.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 39:30 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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 …”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 54:43 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Huffman: Reddit requires a human present when AI agents use platform
“The way we're thinking about it today is we want to make sure there's an ass in seat. Like, are you physically watching this thing?”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 23:48 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Huffman: Reddit will outsource verification to third parties using privacy tokens
“Our design of these things is that you, it's not, Reddit doesn't do the verifying. And in fact, the way we want to implement these things is you actually kind of leave the app and then come back. So it's very clear you're in a different app, you're on a differ…”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 40:00 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 46:38 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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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…”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 50:32 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Huffman: Reddit refuses to optimize algorithms for enraging content
“Reddit's never been the engagement platform. Right? Find the most engaging or enraging posts to drive time on site or to drive traffic. That's just not how we run the business. That's not what our community wants.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 25:37 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Huffman: AI masquerading as humans is not allowed on Reddit
“When people say bots today, they're referring to, you know, AI masquerading as humans. That's not allowed on Reddit.”
Steve Huffman Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 21:44 How Reddit Went From $12M to $2.2B + Cracked Social Media Monetization · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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