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The Best One Yet

👾 “Reddit vs AI” — Our Interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman

The Best One Yet

Nick & Jack Studios

News, Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Reddit… it’s the most important company in social media right now, because it’s the most different. It’s the 5th most visited website in America, the internet’s front page, and the most valuable source of content to train artificial intelligence (Sam Altman pays *them*). They’ve got a partnership with OpenAI… yet the content is anti-AI. And co-founder / CEO Steve Huffman runs the most real company in tech right now… and he's a classically-trained ballroom dancer.


In this interview episode, you’ll hear…


  • How ballroom dancing is like running a company.
  • The invention of the upvote/downvote.
  • Reddit’s version of judicial, legislative, and executive branch.
  • How the CEO of reddit decides when to ban an account.
  • How AI models train by reading reddit.
  • Should Reddit rebrand to “Real”?


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yetis, Nick and Jack coming at you from the T-Boy Studio. We're about to interview Steve Huffman,

0:05.6

the CEO and co-founder of Reddit. This episode is packed with two huge topics, social media

0:11.9

and artificial intelligence. Social media rules the present, AI rules the future, and Reddit

0:17.4

uniquely positioned for both. We also talk about Reddit's past, After all, it was founded in 2005, the year after Facebook. And Jack, we're going to talk about classical ballroom dancing and what it teaches you about running a $20 billion company. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this interview with the co-founder of Reddit.

0:35.6

Yeties, our guest today is the guy who created the front page of the internet.

0:40.3

You Reddit, but he built it.

0:42.2

Because we're talking to Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit.

0:45.6

And Jack, from what I can see, Steve is a boomerang CEO.

0:49.7

He left Reddit and eventually found his bay back to Reddit.

0:53.5

Twice the drama, twice the karma.

0:55.9

Because GameStop became a meme stock on Reddit.

0:59.6

And Reddit is where Ask Me Anything became a thing.

1:02.3

Reddit is where Jack's brother learned how to use that fancy camera that his wife just bought.

1:06.1

I swear, R slash canon is the reason every family photo I have looks professional, Nick.

1:11.2

But Jack, we should point out Reddit is not just a content site.

1:14.0

Reddit is a culture factory.

1:16.2

It's a place where a tiny conversation in a tiny subreddit can become a massive national or global movement.

1:23.0

Or a Netflix movie.

1:24.8

And right now, Reddit has become AI food, literally in a good way.

1:29.1

Which is probably both awesome for Reddit and maybe a little scary for Reddit too.

1:33.3

So yeties, today we're sitting down with the commander of comments.

1:36.8

The Don of the Downvotes. The King of Community.

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