Steve Huffman is a well-known web developer from America who is best known to be the co-founder of the sharing website called Reddit. Huffman serves as the chief executive officer of the company. He is also one of the co-founders of the search engine site called Hipmunk. He started his career at a very young age.

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Early Life

Steve Huffman was born on November 12, 1983. He completed his schooling from The Plains, Virginia’s Wakefield School. Following that, he did his major in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He is a survivalist.

Steve Huffman has been married to his wife, Katie Babiarz. In 2015, he stated that controversial communities should not be allowed to Reddit.

He was also in a controversy in 2016 when he admitted to editing the comments of the supporters of Donald Trump. It was found that he was critical to Donald Trump’s moderators. He later revealed that he would not commit the same mistake again as the entire company was not happy with him. Trump has got more than 300,000 subscribers on Reddit.

Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on 12 November 1983, Huffman is 37 years old as of today’s date 23rd January 2021. His height is 1.71 m tall, and his weight is 68 kg.

Career

When Steve Huffman was still in college, he created Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in Boston’s two-bedroom apartment. They teamed up for their graduation project as both were an alumnus of the University of Virginia. Reddit was a content-sharing site that soon became a major success. As of today, it has got more than 542 million visitors in a month.

In 2006, the site was acquired by Condé Nast Publications, and it became a subsidiary of its parent company called Advance Publications. Reddit became the 11th most visited site in the USA in January 2016. It was ahead of other giants like CNN, ESPN, Bing, Pinterest, and Tumbler.

At the time of Reddit’s sale, there only four employees on the site. As of July 2017, it has over 230 employees. Steve Huffman left Reddit in 2010. Following that, he went on to create the travel website Hipmunk along with Adam Goldstein. It was funded by the company Y Combinator.

In 2015, Huffman returned to Reddit and became its chief executive officer. He returned to the company as it was in turmoil. He succeeded Ellen Pao to the CEO of Reddit. He continues to serve as the CEO of the company after its birth.

Huffman has also served as an instructor for the e-learning course called “CS253: Web Development”. It was offered by Udacity, which is an online education provider.

Awards & Achievements

Steve Huffman has not won an award in his career. One of his greatest career achievements is to be the co-founder of Reddit and turn it into a great success. In 2013, he appeared on the list of ‘30 under 30’ by Inc. magazine.

Net Worth & Salary of Huffman

As of January 2021, Steve Huffman has an estimated net worth of more than $5 million. He owes this fortune after co-founding Reddit and becoming its chief executive officer. He began his career at a very young age and is known to be a man with innovative ideas. Following its acquisition by Condé Nast, he continued to be the CEO of the company. He has also successfully created Hipmunk. He created new policies after he was re-appointed as the CEO of Reddit.

Steve Huffman is considered one of the most popular web developers in the world. He was interested in solving things right from his early childhood and preferred writing calculators. He is known to be a person with innovative thoughts. With his wife, he wrote a program for solving Sudoku.