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Steve Huffman (born November 12, 1983) is an American web developer and both the co-founder and CEO of the social networking website Reddit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Three Years After Their Acquisition, Reddit Founders Move On )〕〔 More recently, he co-founded the airfare search site Hipmunk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Hipmunk )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=2010-08-01 )〕 ==Career== Huffman, a graduate of Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia, attended the University of Virginia and majored in Computer Science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Unleashing High-Profile, High-Profit Websites )〕 After college, he teamed up with classmate Alexis Ohanian to start Reddit, which was initially funded by Y Combinator.〔 Huffman and Ohanian first pitched their idea to Paul Graham from Y-Combinator. He advised and gave his suggestions, changing of what was an app for ordering food, to become Reddit.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=2015-08-08 )〕 Reddit was later acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit )〕 In 2010, Huffman teamed up with Adam Goldstein to create the travel site Hipmunk, with funding also from Y Combinator.〔〔 In 2011, Huffman was named to ''Inc.'' magazine's 30 under 30 list.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Adam Goldstein and Steve Huffman, Founders of Hipmunk )〕 Huffman is also the instructor for "CS253: Web Development", an e-learning course that began on April 2012 offered by online education provider Udacity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Udacity CS253 Web Application Engineering )〕 In 2014 Huffman stated that his decision to sell Reddit was a mistake, and that the site's growth had exceeded his expectations. On July 10, 2015, after Ellen Pao's resignation, Huffman was appointed CEO of Reddit. Huffman expressed that some controversial communities shouldn't be on Reddit, writing "Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New CEO: Some People on Reddit ‘Shouldn’t Be Here at All’ )〕 Huffman later stated "we didn’t create reddit to be a bastion of free speech, the concept is important to us." Huffman went on to publish a lengthy statement around objectionable content, creating new policies that would require users to opt-in to seeing some content, and blocking material that encourages "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Let's talk content. AMA. : announcements )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Is Cracking Down On Hateful Content )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Huffman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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