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Interim CEO Ellen Pao is out at Reddit, and while the departure has reportedly been characterized as amicable, the weeks leading up to this moment have been anything but that. Pao has been the subject of vitriol from an angry coalition of Reddit users who have relentlessly mocked and denigrated her, often using sexist, viscious…
article start Reddit, one of the most highly trafficked websites in the world, is replacing its interim chief executive, Ellen Pao, ending an eight-month tenure that was enmeshed in controversy. Ms. Pao is resigning and being replaced by co-founder and former chief, Steve Huffman, the company said. He will rejoin Reddit’s other co-founder, Alexis Ohanian,…
Ellen Pao is stepping down as Reddit CEO, a move that comes amid mounting pressure after a series of management mishaps that has angered its very vocal online community. Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder and its original CEO, is taking over immediately. In an interview this afternoon, Pao said the departure was a “mutual decision” with…
Ellen Pao resigned from reddit today by mutual agreement. I’m delighted to announce that Steve Huffman, founder and the original reddit CEO, is returning as CEO. We are thankful for Ellen’s many contributions to reddit and the technology industry generally. She brought focus to chaos, recruited a world-class team of executives, and drove growth. She…
Photo Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive officer of Reddit, will be succeeded by Steve Huffman. Credit Robert Galbraith/Reuters Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive of Reddit, resigned from the online message board on Friday after a week of ceaseless criticism from scores of angry users over the handling of an employee departure. Ms. Pao…
IN PERSON (Jen Chung/Gothamist) The Long Island lacrosse-playing college student who burst into Broadway history as the first, social media-documented idiot to barge onto a stage to charge his precious cellphone faced the press today. Nick Silvestri, 19, read a statement before a group of reporters admitting, “I don’t go to plays very much, and…
Wikimedia CommonsRichard Stallman, software freedom fighterThe apps and games you use every day don’t exist in a vacuum — someone, somewhere, wrote the code. That also goes for the underlying platforms and hardware that those apps run on. And the web. And the entire Internet itself. Even the programming languages that people use to build…
Women will have insurance coverage for birth control regardless of whether their employer claims a religious exemption, the federal government announced today. In a new rule published this morning by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor, the government specified which employers can claim the religious exemptions granted to companies…
“My dearest Ulmus,” the message began. “As I was leaving St. Mary’s College today I was struck, not by a branch, but by your radiant beauty. You must get these messages all the time. You’re such an attractive tree.” This is an excerpt of a letter someone wrote to a green-leaf elm, one…
You always hear about hackers stealing information from credit card companies but what if instead of stealing it they destroyed it? How come you never hear about hackers trying to completely eliminate some valuable data? I’m sure what with backups and bytes zapping all over the globe constantly it would be pretty hard. Much harder…