But I will point out far and away the most common user written rule on

Reddit on a community written rule is some form of be nice be nice be civil be

respectful and they and they rate that for themselves they write that for themselves and they enforce it for themselves

I'm Ricky Malvee and that's Reddit CEO Steve Huffman.

Reddit is a social networking site.

If you haven't visited, it's broken up into communities or sub-retits for just about anything you can imagine.

News, sports, local food, hobbies, memes, it's more focused on conversation than other social networks, though.

My colleague Dylan Lewis caught up with Huffman for an interview about the state of

Reddit now that it's a public company. They discuss its ad business, what's driving

Reddit's user growth, and artificial intelligence, what the company can do with one of

the largest corpses of human conversation. We played a part of the interview on

Friday's syndicated radio show

it offers a higher level view of the business

and that's a great place to start if you're unfamiliar with

Reddit.

Today's show is a bit of a deeper dive.

Both pieces work together and neither show is a replay of the other.

I do want to dig in as some of the company numbers a little bit and talk through some of that.

I was impressed as a long time follower of the business to see the growth that you guys put up in

2024 because platforms have been around for a very long time.

The revenue growth of 50%, to me, not crazy surprising for where you guys are at and the

monetization story, the user growth story of 50% was a surprise.

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