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

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 26, 20261 hr 7 min

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 inventi...

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Yeti's Nick and Jack coming at you from the T-Boy Studio. We're about to interview Steve Huffman, the CEO and co-founder of Reddit. This episode is packed with two huge topics, social media and artificial intelligence. Social media rules the present, AI rules the future, and Reddit uniquely positioned for both. We also talk about Reddit's past. After all, it was founded in 2005,

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the year after Facebook. And Jack, we're going to talk about classical ballroom dancing and what to teach you about running a $20 billion company. So sit back, relax and enjoy this interview with the co-founder of Reddit. Yeti is our guest today is the guy who created the front page of the internet. You read it, but he built it because we're talking to Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit.

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And Jack, from what I can see, Steve is a boomerang CEO. He left Reddit and eventually found his Payback to Reddit. Twice the drama, twice the karma. Because GameStop became a meme stock on Reddit.

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