Popular online community message board Reddit gets a new boss in the face of Ellen Pao, following several months of trouble within the company brought about by Reddit's former CEO Yishan Wong.
Outgoing chief executive officer Yishan Wong is said to have caused the internal turbulence in Reddit after ordering employees to be reassigned to San Francisco or find work elsewhere.
Furthermore, tensions increased between the executive and the company's employees after Wong argued over a termination of a former Reddit staff on the online community message board itself.
Wong also had a disagreement with the board over the cost of the new office space and the new location.
Reddit will now be taken over by Ellen Pao, the company's strategic partnerships head.
Pao will step in as interim CEO while the company is searching for a more permanent replacement.
Aside from Pao, one of Reddit's original co-founders will also return to the company, Alexis Ohanian.
Ohanian, who left Reddit back in 2010 will now serve as Reddit's Executive Chairman.
Ohanian, alog with former college roommate Steve Huffman founded Reddit in 2005 and boomed into a household name and a popular web site in the tech community in 2012 when he led a movement against a congressional bill aimed at preventing online piracy.
Ohanian was reportedly pushed by Reddit's board after Wong's resignation.
"I had a bunch of my fellow board members asking me to get back involved," Ohanian said in a statement in Time Magazine.
"And I had a long conversation with my girlfriend, I talked to my dad about it, and ultimately decided that this was the time to get re-engaged full-time with Reddit."
Ohanian called Reddit his "baby I've watched grow for the last ten years" and acknowledge the challenge of stepping in the company amidst recent internal troubles.
"While I do believe I'm going to bring, as a founder, a kind of stabilizing presence and vision for the company, I know I'm not the only one who has to get it right," he said. "I'm going to do everything I can to help, and I think it will, but it's going to take every one of
