Steve Huffman

What you can learn from Steve Huffman:

• The enormous potential communities hold for brands—no matter how niche the topic may be.
• What it takes to scale a platform—from a small forum to a publicly traded tech player.
• How Reddit leverages AI and integrates technological advancement into its product.

He created the "front page of the internet" and defined the way online communities work: Steve Huffman, co-founder and CEO of Reddit. What started in 2005 as a link-sharing platform following an initial spark from Y Combinator has, under his leadership, developed into one of internet’s largest sources of information. Today, over 130 million people use the platform daily to post, vote, comment, and search for answers across nearly every topic imaginable. Between 2009 and 2015, Huffman left Reddit, during which time he co-founded the travel search engine Hipmunk. Since returning to lead the platform, he has steered the company through its biggest transformation phase. International expansion, a redesign, a successful IPO in 2024—leading to annual revenues of 2.2 billion US dollars in 2025 and a central role in the global AI landscape. Steve Huffman will speak about Reddit’s evolution and why human perspective is more valuable than ever all of this and more at the OMR Festival 2027 in Hamburg.