Yishan Wong | |
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Education | Carnegie Mellon University |
Occupation | Co-founder of Sunfire Offices |
Known for | Former CEO of Reddit |
Spouse | Kimberly Algeri-Wong |
Website | algeri-wong.com |
Yishan Wong | |||||||
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Chinese | 黃易山 | ||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Huáng Yìshān | ||||||
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Yishan Wong ( Chinese: 黃易山; pinyin: Huáng Yìshān) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who was CEO of Reddit from March 2012 until his resignation in November 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] With Niniane Wang he is also co-founder of the Mountain View coworking space Sunfire Offices, [5] and was an advisor at Quora. Wong was briefly a contributing blogger to Forbes magazine. [6]
Wong worked as a senior engineering manager at PayPal from 2001 to 2005. He is a member of PayPal's early group of employees known collectively as the PayPal Mafia. In 2005, he joined Facebook as a director of engineering on projects including crowd translation. [7] Before leaving Facebook in 2010, he became an active Reddit user and posted often. [8]
After three months of talks with Reddit in late 2011, Wong was offered the position of CEO, an offer which he claims friends met with "uproarious laughter". [9]
In 2012, when asked about various controversial Reddit communities, Wong said that the site should offer a platform for objectionable content: "We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it." [10] In 2013, he hired Ellen Pao as the Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships and later recommended her as CEO. [11]
In 2014, Reddit board member and YC president Sam Altman announced that Wong was leaving the company, after being unable to garner support for a proposal to move the Reddit office from San Francisco to Daly City. [12] Reportedly, Wong "stopped showing up at the office" when the board of directors ignored his proposal. [13] Wong, who thought newer employees would prefer to work in a less expensive area, stated that before the disagreement he had considered leaving due to an abundance of stress. [14]
In 2017, Wong founded Terraformation to combat climate change through reforestation. [15]
Wong is a graduate of Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota, and of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is married to Kimberly Algeri-Wong, who holds a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting. [16]
Wong supported Barack Obama and spoke favorably about Obama's familiarity with the Internet. [17]
Yishan Wong | |
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Education | Carnegie Mellon University |
Occupation | Co-founder of Sunfire Offices |
Known for | Former CEO of Reddit |
Spouse | Kimberly Algeri-Wong |
Website | algeri-wong.com |
Yishan Wong | |||||||
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Chinese | 黃易山 | ||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Huáng Yìshān | ||||||
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Yishan Wong ( Chinese: 黃易山; pinyin: Huáng Yìshān) is an American engineer and entrepreneur who was CEO of Reddit from March 2012 until his resignation in November 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] With Niniane Wang he is also co-founder of the Mountain View coworking space Sunfire Offices, [5] and was an advisor at Quora. Wong was briefly a contributing blogger to Forbes magazine. [6]
Wong worked as a senior engineering manager at PayPal from 2001 to 2005. He is a member of PayPal's early group of employees known collectively as the PayPal Mafia. In 2005, he joined Facebook as a director of engineering on projects including crowd translation. [7] Before leaving Facebook in 2010, he became an active Reddit user and posted often. [8]
After three months of talks with Reddit in late 2011, Wong was offered the position of CEO, an offer which he claims friends met with "uproarious laughter". [9]
In 2012, when asked about various controversial Reddit communities, Wong said that the site should offer a platform for objectionable content: "We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it." [10] In 2013, he hired Ellen Pao as the Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships and later recommended her as CEO. [11]
In 2014, Reddit board member and YC president Sam Altman announced that Wong was leaving the company, after being unable to garner support for a proposal to move the Reddit office from San Francisco to Daly City. [12] Reportedly, Wong "stopped showing up at the office" when the board of directors ignored his proposal. [13] Wong, who thought newer employees would prefer to work in a less expensive area, stated that before the disagreement he had considered leaving due to an abundance of stress. [14]
In 2017, Wong founded Terraformation to combat climate change through reforestation. [15]
Wong is a graduate of Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota, and of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is married to Kimberly Algeri-Wong, who holds a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting. [16]
Wong supported Barack Obama and spoke favorably about Obama's familiarity with the Internet. [17]