Reddit Names New CEO in Blog Post After Lengthy Search

In September, the social aggregation site Reddit indicated that it was trawling the community for a new CEO- seeking a candidate that avidly Reddits in order to helm the site.

If Reddit is rife with anything, it’s information- the site is a huge treasure trove of images, links, discussions, debates and memes- so it stands to reason that a search for a Reddit CEO on Reddit could take quite some time. And today, on the official Reddit blog, a new CEO announced himself and invited Redditors to a a future IAmA session, expected in the next week or two.

In part, Yishan Wong explains that he didn’t think initially he’d be able to land the CEO gig at Reddit:

“At first, I didn’t really quite believe I was a serious candidate. It didn’t seem real, and I knew that I didn’t match the profile of what you might consider (or so I thought) a CEO candidate. I don’t have the polish and the poise and the schmoozing, and I don’t play golf. Instead, I’m an engineer and a leader of engineers and I play Starcraft (poorly). But as I continued the conversations, I came to understand that reddit wasn’t looking for a conventional CEO candidate, because reddit is not a conventional company.”

You can read Wong’s full intro over on Reddit’s blog.

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Kim LaCapria Kim LaCapria is a writer and editor based in New York. A longtime information junkie, she began blogging full-time at the Inquisitr in 2009. Prior to that, she worked as a marketing assistant in the cosmetics and skincare industry. In addition to her writing for fortytwotimes, she also writes for Medacity and The Inquisitr. Kim is also a contributor for SocialNewsDaily, Indyposted, and TotallyMoney. In the past, she contributed to Lipstick and Luxury and managed social media accounts and blogs for several small and mid-sized businesses.