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Reddit CEO Says 'Idealism' Masked Poor Work Ethic in Company's Early Days


Reddit's Steve Huffman isn't mincing words about what he found when he came back as CEO in 2015: a company full of idealists who weren't exactly killing themselves with hard work. "We were really idealistic, and that's been good in many ways, but we were also idealistic about not being a business,...

Reddit's Steve Huffman isn't mincing words about what he found when he came back as CEO in 2015: a company full of idealists who weren't exactly killing themselves with hard work. "Wrapped up in some of that idealism was also not working very hard," he added. Huffman sees this as a Silicon Valley disease: "It's almost an entitlement of, 'I work at these companies, but I don't have to work very hard and I'm here for myself.'"

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