Reddit CEO & co-founder Steve Huffman says Reddit is bigger than he'd thought it'd be since 2005.

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Reddit has been bigger than I ever

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thought it would be since August 2005.

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It's all just been a ride since then.

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>> What made you found Reddit in 2005? And

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like, oh yeah, there there was no AI

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back in 2005.

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>> In 2005, it was just hard to find

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interesting things to read. Like you

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kind of had to know the websites you

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liked or maybe a blog you liked, but

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there wasn't a feed of interesting

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things. That's what we wanted to make.

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So we wanted to make a feed of

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interesting things that instead of being

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controlled by an editor was controlled

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by users. And so that was the simple

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idea. Users submit links, users vote on

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them, and our front page is interesting

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content. And it's just all kind of

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evolved from there today. We're about

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120 million daily users. And we've been

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taking one step at a time with Reddit

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for so long. I just I I trust the

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process that if we just make a little

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bit of improvement every day, we'll get

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to where we want to go eventually. And

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so we think, how do we get to a billion

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users? Which by the way isn't even the

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biggest on the internet. It's just an

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another nice milestone. And we just

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every day I think chip away at it.

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Reddit was founded in 2005 by the speaker with the goal of creating a user-driven feed for interesting content, replacing traditional editor-controlled models. Since then, the platform has grown significantly, and the founder continues to focus on incremental daily improvements to reach the goal of one billion users.