“I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is, I think, a pillar of the internet and has such a big audience.”

“I have a pretty optimistic personality, which has led me to do two turnarounds, like AOL and Time, Inc. were both seriously disrupted businesses.”

“We [started] with advertising because it Reddit free and open. So we do not force login. If you end up on Reddit through Google searches, you notice we don’t block you from the information because we believe in the open internet.”

“This issue and question around communities, I think, is pervasive. I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and that was about changes in city communities, and I’m reading Anxious Generation now, which is about the demise of real-life communities in everything from religion to Scouting.”

“At Reddit, everything we build is trying to mimic real life. If you think about how do you have a good discussion in real life, it’s usually knowing the context. Somebody’s hosting a dinner party. Is it work colleagues? Is it college friends? …[So] you know what to wear, what to say, what not to say.”

“I love the zeitgeist. ...I’m the first one to download the new music on Tuesdays. I’m the first one to download some new crazy app and test it out. And I think it makes me better at my job.”

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