Former Facebook engineering director Yishan Wong takes role as CEO of Reddit
Yishan Wong, a former director of engineering at Facebook, who spent more than four years at the company overseeing ads, payments and internationalization efforts, is becoming chief executive of Reddit.
Reddit is seeing somewhat of a resurgence after its onetime rival Digg saw a great deal of executive turnover. Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast last fall as a standalone unit, but the magazine publisher retains full ownership of it. I had heard last fall that Reddit had been poking around among senior executives at early social networking and gaming companies, but it wasn’t clear who would step into the position.
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