"I really, really loved Reddit. And part of me, it wasn't even kind of a CEO mentality," he says. "It was more of just like an engineer who knew how Reddit worked." He recalls his friends asking him why he went back to work on the site after Ellen Powell's resignation. 'Why do you run into that burning building? I had no choice'
With $12,000 and a mascot named Snoo, two former college roommates designed a web site they hoped would become "the front page of the Internet." Today, despite growing pains, personal issues and persistent trolls, Reddit has over 300 million monthly users and is valued at 1.8 billion dollars. Recorded live in San Francisco.
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