About this episode

An interview with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman discussing the unique aspects of Reddit and its relationship with AI.

  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”? Or watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod NEWSLETTER: https://tboypod.com/newsletter   OUR 2ND SHOW: Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/ NEW LISTENERS Fill out our 2 minute survey…

People in this episode

Guest: Steve Huffman

Topics covered

• Reddit
• AI
• social media
• business
• interview
• technology

Keywords

• Reddit
• Steve Huffman
• AI
• social media
• upvote
• downvote
• OpenAI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reddit, OpenAI

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