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  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Thursday Jun 23, 2005

    Reddit was foundated

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Thursday Jun 23, 2005

    For this idea, Huffman and Ohanian were accepted in Y Combinator's first class. Supported by the funding from Y Combinator, Huffman coded the site in Common Lisp and together with Ohanian launched Reddit in June 2005.




  • Virginia, U.S.
    2005

    The idea of Reddit originated

    Virginia, U.S.
    2005

    The idea and initial development of Reddit originated with then college roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005.




  • Medford, Massachusetts, United States
    2005

    Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami

    Medford, Massachusetts, United States
    2005

    Between November 2005 and January 2006, Reddit merged with Aaron Swartz's company Infogami, and Swartz became an equal owner of the resulting parent company, Not A Bug.




  • Medford, Massachusetts, United States
    Nov, 2005

    The team included Christopher Slowe

    Medford, Massachusetts, United States
    Nov, 2005

    The team expanded to include Christopher Slowe in November 2005.




  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Dec, 2005

    What is reddit programming language?

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Dec, 2005

    Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005.




  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Oct, 2006

    Team moves to San Francisco

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Oct, 2006

    Condé Nast (the publisher) acquires Reddit for less than $20 million. Team moves to San Francisco.




  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Oct 31, 2006

    Reddit was sold

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Oct 31, 2006

    Huffman and Ohanian sold Reddit to Condé Nast Publications, owner of Wired, on October 31, 2006, for a reported $10 million to $20 million, and the team moved to San Francisco.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2006

    Swartz blogged complaining about the new corporate environment

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2006

    In November 2006, Swartz blogged complaining about the new corporate environment, criticizing its level of productivity.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2007

    Swartz was fired

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2007

    In January 2007, Swartz was fired for undisclosed reasons.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2008

    Erik Martin joined the company as a community manager

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2008

    After Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit, Erik Martin, who joined the company as a community manager in 2008 and later became general manager in 2011, played a role in Reddit's growth.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2008

    Reddit becomes open-source

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2008

    Reddit becomes open-source.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2009

    Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2009

    Huffman and Ohanian left Reddit in 2009.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2009

    Reddit launched two different ways of advertising

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2009

    Reddit launched two different ways of advertising on the site in 2009. The company launched sponsored content and a self-serve ads platform that year.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2009

    Reddit used Pylons

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2009

    As of November 10, 2009, Reddit used Pylons as its web framework.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Jul, 2010

    Reddit launched its Reddit Gold

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Jul, 2010

    Reddit launched its Reddit Gold benefits program in July 2010, which offered new features to editors and created a new revenue stream for the business that did not rely on banner ads.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2010

    Reddit released its first mobile web

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2010

    In 2010, Reddit released its first mobile web interface for easier reading and navigating the website on touch screen devices.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Feb, 2011

    Reddit reached 1 billion page-views

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Feb, 2011

    By February 2011, Reddit reached 1 billion page views per month.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Sep 6, 2011

    Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Sep 6, 2011

    On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast, operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 18, 2012

    Reddit participated sitewide blackout

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Jan 18, 2012

    Reddit and other websites participated in a 12-hour sitewide blackout on January 18, 2012, in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday May 22, 2012

    Reddit joined the Internet Defense League

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday May 22, 2012

    In May 2012, Reddit joined the Internet Defense League, a group formed to organize future protests.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Yishan Wong joined Reddit

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Yishan Wong joined Reddit as CEO in 2012.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Reddit reached 1 billion page-views

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Reddit reached 1 billion page views per month. Within a year, Reddit again doubled in pageviews and reached 2 billion page views per month.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Reddit achieves 37 billion page views

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2012

    Reddit achieves 37 billion page views in 2012.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Feb, 2013

    Reddit began accepting the digital currency Bitcoin

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Feb, 2013

    Reddit began accepting the digital currency Bitcoin for its Reddit Gold subscription service through a partnership with the bitcoin payment processor Coinbase in February 2013.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2013

    Reddit achieves 56 billion page views

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2013

    Reddit achieves 56 billion page views in 2013.


  • Daly City, California, United States
    2014

    Wong resigned from Reddit

    Daly City, California, United States
    2014

    Wong resigned from Reddit in 2014, citing disagreements about his proposal to move the company's offices from San Francisco to nearby Daly City.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2014

    Ellen Pao replaced Wong as interim CEO

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2014

    Ellen Pao replaced Wong as interim CEO in 2014 and resigned in 2015 amid a user revolt over the firing of a popular Reddit employee.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2014

    Reddit achieves 71.25 billion page views

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2014

    Reddit achieves 71.25 billion page views in 2014.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2014

    Ohanian and Huffman returned to leadership roles at Reddit

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2014

    After five years away from the company, Ohanian and Huffman returned to leadership roles at Reddit: Ohanian became the full-time executive chairman in November 2014 following Wong's resignation.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2014

    Yishan Wong resigns as Reddit CEO

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Nov, 2014

    Yishan Wong resigns as Reddit CEO. Ellen Pao becomes interim CEO and co-founder Alexis Ohanian returns to Reddit and becomes executive chairman.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jul 10, 2015

    Pao resigned as CEO

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jul 10, 2015

    On July 10, 2015, Pao resigned as CEO and was replaced by Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jul 10, 2015

    Huffman's return as the company's chief

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jul 10, 2015

    Pao's departure on July 10, 2015, led to Huffman's return as the company's chief executive.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Aug 18, 2015

    Reddit hires Marty Weiner

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Tuesday Aug 18, 2015

    Reddit hires Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer at Pinterest, as its first Chief Technology Officer.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Sep, 2015

    Reddit launches Upvoted

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Sep, 2015

    Reddit launches Upvoted, a news site that digs out interesting content from Reddit, but without enabling commenting.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2016

    Reddit launches a new blocking tool

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2016

    In April 2016, Reddit launches a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb online harassment. The tool allows a user to hide posts and comments from selected Redditors in addition to blocking private messages from those Redditors.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2016

    Reddit released The Official App and the iOS App Store

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2016

    Reddit removed Alien Blue and released its official application, Reddit: The Official App, on Google Play and the iOS App Store in April 2016.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2016

    Reddit began hosting images using a new image uploading tool

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2016

    In 2016, Reddit began hosting images using a new image uploading tool, a move that shifted away from the uploading service Imgur that had been the de facto service.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017

    Reddit announced was no longer open source

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Wednesday Sep 13, 2017

    Reddit announces that its main code repositories, backing its desktop and mobile websites, are no longer open source.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Slowe rejoined Reddit

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Slowe, the company's first employee, rejoined Reddit in 2017 as chief technology officer.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit's largest round of funding came

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit's largest round of funding came in 2017 when the company raised $200 million and was valued at $1.8 billion. The funding supported Reddit's site redesign and video efforts.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit developed chat software

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    In 2017, Reddit developed its own real-time chat software for the site.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit's in-house video uploading service

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit's in-house video uploading service for desktop and mobile was launched in 2017.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit was an open source project until 2017

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2017

    Reddit was an open-source project from June 18, 2008, until 2017.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    Huffman launched Reddit's iOS and Android apps

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    After Huffman rejoined Reddit as CEO, he launched Reddit's iOS and Android apps, fixed Reddit's mobile website and created A/B testing infrastructure. The company launched a major redesign of its website in April 2018.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    The company launched a major redesign of its website

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    The company launched a major redesign of its website in April 2018.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    Reddit announces the roll out of a new design

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Apr, 2018

    Reddit announces the rollout of a new design for the site and its logo Snoo.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2018

    Reddit Gold was renamed Reddit Premium

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2018

    Reddit Gold was renamed Reddit Premium in 2018. In addition to gold coins, users can gift silver and platinum coins to other users as rewards for quality content.


  • Chicago, Illinois, United States
    2018

    Reddit opened a Chicago office

    Chicago, Illinois, United States
    2018

    Reddit opened a Chicago office to be closer to major companies and advertising agencies located in and around Chicago.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2018

    Reddit launched its redesigned website

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2018

    Reddit launched its redesigned website in 2018, with its first major visual update in a decade.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    2019

    Reddit hired Shariq Rizvi

    San Francisco, California, United States
    2019

    In 2019, Reddit hired former Twitter ad director Shariq Rizvi as its vice president of ad products and engineering.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jun 5, 2020

    Ohanian resigned from the board

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jun 5, 2020

    On June 5, 2020, Ohanian resigned from the board and planned to be replaced "by a Black candidate".


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jun 5, 2020

    Alexis Ohanian resigned

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Jun 5, 2020

    On June 5, 2020, Alexis Ohanian resigned as a member of the board in response to the George Floyd protests and requested to be replaced "by a Black candidate".


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Sunday Dec 13, 2020

    Reddit acquires Dubsmash

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Sunday Dec 13, 2020

    Reddit acquires Dubsmash. They intend to integrate its video creation tools into Reddit.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 2021

    Reddit announced that it had appointed Drew Vollero

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Friday Mar 5, 2021

    On March 5, 2021, Reddit announced that it had appointed Drew Vollero, who has worked at Snapchat's parent company Snap as its first Chief Financial Officer weeks after the site was thrust into the spotlight due to its role in the GameStop trading frenzy.


  • San Francisco, California, United States
    Aug, 2021

    Reddit is valued at more than $10 billion dollars

    San Francisco, California, United States
    Aug, 2021

    As of August 2021, Reddit is valued at more than $10 billion dollars following a $410 million funding round.


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