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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)

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“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:

Q: So you’re saying that Apollo, RIF, Sync, they don’t add value to Reddit?

A: Not as much as they take. No way.

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[–] SmarfDurden@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Huffman was supposedly so out of the loop – despite being Reddit’s CEO and apparently arguing in favor of third-party apps – that he didn’t realize “the extent that they were profiting off our API.”
“I didn’t know — and this is my fault — the extent that they were profiting off of our API. That these were not charities,” he told The Verge.

What an embarrassing thing for a CEO to say in an interview