![]() That same year, he and Dropbox co-founder Arah Ferdowsi were named TechCrunch’s “Founders of the Year. Houston gained Fortune recognition, and was named a “40 Under 40” in 2014. Frustrated by carrying around a USB everywhere he went to access files, he joined forces with an MIT peer and eventually founded Dropbox, a project that began the year after graduating, much like Huffman with reddit. Houston, meanwhile, graduated MIT with a computer science degree in 2006. ![]() He also spoke last year on campus as part of the same event, in a talk titled “Evaluating Success and Recognizing the Best Time to Sell.” It was quickly named one of the Top 50 Websites and Top 1o Smart-Phone Apps by Time magazine. Conde Nast Publications, the media mammoth that owns The New Yorker, Wired, and a host of other media sources, acquired reddit in 2006.įour years later, Huffman, who was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2012, created Hipmunk in an effort to quell the hassle of finding cheap online plane tickets and hotels. A humble startup at first, reddit now boasts over five billion page-views and 100 million visits per month. Ohanian stopped by campus last year to speak about his new book. Huffman created reddit, the popular user-maintained news and social media website, with his college roommate Alexis Ohanian in 2005, the same year that he graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in computer science. Shortly after, Houston will present “Dropbox: A Conversation with Drew Houston,” also in Alumni Hall at 4:00 p.m. Huffman’s presentation will run from 2:00 p.m. He is the CEO of Dropbox which he developed alongside co-founder Arash Ferdowsi. Huffman’s talk, titled “Steve Huffman: From Reddit to Hipmunk” will chronicle the 31-year-old’s beginning at reddit to the co-creation of Hipmunk, an airfare search site. Dropbox is a tech company founded by Drew Houston, that offers a cloud-based collaboration platform. Reddit co-founder Steve Huffmanand Dropbox CEO Drew Houston will share their career arcs and wisdom at Penn State next Friday as part of IST Startup Week.
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