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by exreddit 1y ago
Image hosting used to be expensive, so forums avoided it and image hosts were scummy and filled with ads. Imgur was a first mover when cloud hosting and CDNs meant it could be relatively cheap for a small shop to do quality image hosting. M
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by exreddit 2y ago
Figured I'd share this since its comp info you don't normally see. A lot of people made a lot of money today. I got 150,000 options for Reddit very early after it was spun out. With today's price, that's $7.5M, but I did
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by exreddit 3y ago
It's not great from the employee side, either. I got 150,000 options for Reddit very early after it was spun out. With the current target price, that's $4.6M, but I didn't get all 4 years of vesting, the pay was below-average
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by exreddit 3y ago
The board at the time was I think Yishan, Alexis, and someone from Advanced. Maybe Sam Altman. Ellen Pao was the natural choice because she had the most business experience of all the staff, but it wasn't the right experience. She was
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by exreddit 3y ago
It's sad that 4chan is the best case outcome.
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by exreddit 3y ago
> We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail. Maybe they should have shipped better apps an
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by exreddit 3y ago
It really depends what the stats look like. If people hop to other subreddits, it'll fail. If traffic is down more than 50% for a week or two, the board will remove Spez.
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by exreddit 3y ago
Vine is no more, Twitter is a punchline, and TikTok took Vine's idea and ran with it.
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by exreddit 3y ago
There was the time the CEO got caught editing users' comments critical of him. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
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by exreddit 3y ago
Imagine the return of /r/creepshots and /r/jailbait, but on defaults.
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by exreddit 5y ago
He already has reddit employee < 20, but this would seal the deal.
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by exreddit 5y ago
I still can't get over that I looked at the morning's news, saw something about this, recognized the same, and was like "I know that guy!" Congrats on the viral hit and all the free press. Josh is a great guy. I doubt th
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by exreddit 5y ago
> independently wealthy He should have a sweet reddit IPO coming his way, soon.