Interview With Reddit Founders

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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick and I spoke with Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian just a few hours after the announcement of their acquisition by Condé Nast earlier today. A recording of the discussion is now up at TalkCrunch.

Steve and Alexis wouldn’t disclose the acquisition price (even under pressure), but they did talk about current traffic (70k uniques & 700k page views per day), and previous funding ($100k total in seed funding, all in the summer of 2005).

Listen to the podcast here.

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