We're about a year older than Twitter and we're about a year younger than Facebook.

And so there just wasn't a lot of common knowledge on how to actually build and skill things.

For most 2005, 2006, my life consisted of get up, go to work, which was my, you know, PhD work.

Come home at night, you just cook dinner, do a night shift on Reddit, and then, you know,

lather words repeat.

I think I've learned in my career that the people who, especially on the infrastructure side

and the SRE side, who do best are the ones who under pressure just kind of like either get

better or just kind of don't, don't panic.

I'm Chris Slow. I'm the CTO and founding engineer at Reddit.

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the

critical moments of what it takes

to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today we talk with Chris Slow about early beginnings

and being the founding engineer building the world of Reddit.

All this and more on Code Story.

A tech and science-minded individual, Chris Slow has spent nine years with Reddit.

Beyond being a tech executive with the company, he is a dad and likes to work

with his hands in the machine shop. When he put roots into the product and the company as

the first employee, he and the co-founders wanted to build a place to discuss interesting topics.

Fast forward many years. Reddit is now the premier place for news aggregation,

content rating, and online discussion around what's going on. Well, let's jump right into it.

Tell me how you got started building Reddit and tell me what Reddit is in your own words. Sure. Well, let's jump right into it. Tell me how you got started building Reddit and tell me what

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