Steve Huffman

Steve Huffman
Born November 12, 1983
Education University of Virginia
Computer science

Steve Huffman (born November 12, 1983) is an American web developer and co-founder of the website reddit.[1] More recently, he co-founded the airfare search site Hipmunk.[2][3]

Reddit

In 2005, Steve graduated from the University of Virginia with a computer science degree.[4] After graduating, he teamed up with classmate Alexis Ohanian to start reddit, which was initially funded by Y Combinator.[4] Reddit was later acquired by Conde Nast in 2006.[5]

Post-reddit

In 2010, Huffman teamed up with Adam Goldstein to create the travel site Hipmunk, with funding also from Y Combinator.[2][3] In 2011, Huffman was named to Inc. magazine's 30 under 30 list.[6] Huffman is also the instructor for "CS253: Web Development", an e-learning course that began on April 2012 offered by online education provider Udacity.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Three Years After Their Acquisition, Reddit Founders Move On". Techcrunch. 2009-10-27.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About Hipmunk". Hipmunk. 2010-08-01.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leena Rao (2010-08-01). "Reddit Co-Founder Dips Back Into Y Combinator With Travel Startup Hipmunk".
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Zak Richards. "Unleashing High-Profile, High-Profit Websites".
  5. ↑ "Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit". 2006-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk". Inc.com. 2011-06-27.
  7. ↑ "Udacity CS253 Web Application Engineering". 2012-04-01.

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