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Reddit and its founders
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- 0:00They sold Reddit at 23, before anybody
- 0:02was really using it. Steve Huffman and
- 0:04Alexis Ohanian built it in a summer
- 0:06after Y Combinator rejected their first
- 0:08idea. 16 months later, Condé Nast bought
- 0:11it [music] for somewhere between 10 and
- 0:1220 million dollars. The magazine
- 0:14publisher filed it under Wired and
- 0:16mostly left it alone. Huffman walked
- 0:18[music] away in 2009. Without him,
- 0:20Reddit drifted. Moderator strikes,
- 0:23blackouts, whole sections of the site
- 0:25going dark in protest. [music]
- 0:26He came back as chief executive in 2016
- 0:29to a company he had already sold once.
- 0:31In March 2024, he took it public at $34
- 0:35a share. It opened 38% higher.
- 0:37>> [music]
- 0:38>> Then AI labs came for the one thing
- 0:40Reddit had that nobody could copy.
- 0:42>> [music]
- 0:42>> 20 years of human argument.
- 0:45Google now pays $60 million a year to
- 0:47train on it. Reddit is worth 30 billion,
- 0:50[music] and the man who sold it for
- 0:51almost nothing is a billionaire.
- 0:56Follow Vibe Economics for more.
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