Live Episode! Reddit: Alexis Ohanian & Steve Huffman

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change, as one behavioral scientist
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0:22.0	changes, both big and small.
0:25.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
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0:31.0	If you listen to how I built this, you're curious about ideas, and you probably have some ideas of your own.
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0:47.0	Every single person I know texted me and said, you got to go back to Reddit.
0:57.0	And it just felt like at the time I had no choice.
1:01.0	It wasn't even kind of a CEO mentality, it was more of just like an engineer who knew how Reddit works.
1:06.0	And watching these trolls run rampant on Reddit, I remember just thinking, I know how to fix this.
1:12.0	I too know the mind of a troll. And if you had just give me access to the code, I can fix this.
1:26.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
1:28.0	A show of innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
1:34.0	I'm Guy Ross and on today's special live episode, out two college roommates built an internet community that's become a virtual nation with a population bigger than Brazil.
1:49.0	So if you're one of the 300 million active Reddit users, you probably think of it as this incredible place,
2:02.0	a home where you can find your tribe, groups of people talking about the weird stuff you're into.
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