Reddit’s first employee has taken over the reigns as CTO of the popular internet company. Chris Slowe was the company’s founding engineer when he joined the..<\/b>
\nReddit\u2019s first employee has taken over the reigns as CTO of the popular internet company.
Chris Slowe was the company\u2019s founding engineer when he joined the team in late 2005. Slowe joined Reddit after getting to know co-founders Alexis Ohanian and current-CEO Steve Huffman in Y-Combinator\u2019s first batch where he was serving as the founder of a different startup at the time.
Former Reddit CTO Marty Weiner, who was also Pinterest\u2019s founding engineer, is now serving in an advisory role to the company and, according to his Twitter bio, is currently \u201con sabbatical working on top secret stuff.\u201d
A Reddit spokesperson confirmed the executive change to TechCrunch.
\u201cReddit is excited that Chris Slowe, our founding engineer, is our CTO. Marty Weiner ushered in engineering excellence that helped make Reddit what it is today \u2013 we shipped more product under Marty\u2019s leadership than ever before, \u201d the spokesperson told TechCrunch. \u201cMarty remains an active member of the Reddit family and is an advisor to the company.\u201d
According to Slowe\u2019s LinkedIn profile, he started the new role in May of this year. Slowe has been on as the director of engineering at Reddit since leaving Hipmunk, a travel planning startup founded by Huffman, in late 2015 (he remains an advisor there) .
Earlier this summer, Reddit announced that it had raised $200 million at a $1.8 billion post-money valuation. Silicon Valley\u2019s top investment firms got in on the round, including investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Vy Capital, Fidelity, Y Combinator President Sam Altman and SV Angel\u2019s Ron Conway.<\/p>\n

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