Reddit Chief Takes Flight To Hipmunk, Explains Why He’s Leaving Now

This morning, top Reddit administrator/engineer Chris Slowe announced that he was leaving the social link sharing site to join Hipmunk , the flight search startup that closed a hyper-competitive angel round last month. Slowe joined Reddit back in 2005 as the company's first employee — now he'll be reunited with Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, both of whom are now at Hipmunk. But why is Slowe leaving now? Reddit's traffic has been hitting record highs in the wake of Digg's failed redesign , so the timing on this seems strange.