The Reddit Co-Founders Faced a Transformative Rejection in College — Here's How They Bounced Back to Start a $6.5 Billion Business. Story by Sherin Shibu • 1mo.

Amid fallout from Ellen Pao's departure, Reddit's Alexis Ohanian shares the back story on how long he's been trying to get Steve Huffman back on board.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told The Verge that popular third-party app developers have made millions. He doubled down on the API changes that the platform is enforcing next month.

In the early days, reddit's community was built up thanks to hundreds of fake profiles created by the site's co-founders, according to Steve Huffman (coincidentally, a reddit co-founder).

Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have just announced that they'll be leaving the company come October 31, when their contracts expire. The news doesn't come as a huge surprise ...

Reddit’s founders met with Google and Yahoo about an acquisition. In November 2005, Reddit was still very young, but Paul Graham thought it was time for the founders to meet with some Silicon ...

Reddit's founders did not want the site to be a home of free speech, and encouraged aggressive censorship; The board had pressured Pao to ban hosts of subreddits, which she had resisted; ...

But Mr. Ohanian and Mr. Huffman–undisputed Reddit founders–don’t agree. “Co-founding Reddit means so much more to me than just the work Steve and I put into creating and growing it.

Before Reddit became the revolutionary powerhouse of truth, justice, and random acts of pizza, it was just a couple of dudes trying to attract people to their idea of launching a link-sharing site ...