#400 Reddit Founder: “I Wish I Still Owned Reddit Now” – with Steve Huffman

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Andrew Warner

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🗓️ 20 October 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Many founders I interviewed on Mixergy told me about how their companies virtually disappeared after they sold them. But 4 years after selling Reddit to Conde Nast, Steve Huffman is so proud of how much its grown that he’d be happy to still own it. I asked him to teach me how he grew his community, why some Y Combinator-backed founders, like him, succeed while others don’t get any traction and why he never resented his co-founder for getting so much attention. I also asked Steve about Hipmunk, the travel site he launched which replaces the spreadsheet-like search results that most travel sites use with a more useful design.

Steve Huffman graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Computer Science in 2005. Immediately after leaving Virginia, he founded reddit.com with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian.

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0:00.0	Three messages before we get started.
0:02.0	If you're a tech entrepreneur, don't you have unique legal needs that the average lawyer can't help you with?
0:08.0	That's why you need Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law.
0:12.0	If you read his articles on Venture Beat, you know that he can help you with issues like raising money,
0:18.0	or issuing stock options, or even deciding whether to form a corporation.
0:22.6	Scott Edward Walker is the entrepreneur's lawyer.
0:25.6	See him at Walker Corporate Law.com.
0:28.6	And do you remember when I interviewed Sarah Sutton Fell about how thousands of people pay for her job site?
0:33.6	Look at the biggest point that she made.
0:35.6	She said that she has a phone number
0:37.9	on every page of her site because, and here's a stat, 95% of the people who call end up buying.
0:44.9	Most people though don't call her, but seeing a real number increases their confidence
0:49.4	in her and they buy. So try this. Go to grasshopper.com and get a phone number that will make your company
0:56.2	sound professional. Add it to your site and see what happens. Grasshopper.com. And remember Patrick
1:03.8	Buckley who I interviewed? He came up with an idea for an iPad case. He built a store to sell it,
1:09.2	and in a few months he generated about a million
1:11.5	dollars in sales. Well, the platform he used is Shopify. If you have an idea to sell anything,
1:18.1	set up your store on Shopify.com because Shopify stores are designed to increase sales. Plus,
1:25.5	Shopify makes it easy to set up a beautiful store and manage it.
1:29.3	Shopify.com. Here's a program.
1:32.3	Hey everyone, my name is Andrew Warner. I'm the founder of MixerG.com, home of the ambitious
1:36.8	upstart. And the goal here is to interview successful entrepreneurs about how they built their
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