Apollo developer debunks claims made my spez : reddit

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[-] nucleative@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I have a theory and haven't seen anyone else suggest it yet. While I am sure Spez is the tard monkey he appears to be, he only has one choice.

The board/VC investors are ready to cash out now. Spez is too because this ceo job is a lot more annoying to do every day than trolling people. There is a massive payday just around the corner awaiting him and his buddies. The only metrics that matter are what his company looks like on paper to the likes of Goldman Sachs. He doesn't give a rip about mods, 3P apps, APIs, or even users.
Reddit is (probably) running out of cash. They can't even find a measly $10m bucks for Apollo. They can't afford to NOT get the ad revenue from 3P clients because the bills are so tight right now. You can't meet the salary of 3,000 "Snoos" (reddit employees) by pimping reddit gold all day long.

Spez needs to wrap this up ASAP so this bitch can get put out to sale and he can ride off into the sunset.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Both are probably true. Some more things that help those claims.

ad revenue per user is garbage on reddit, and forcing third party users into their app is a small number of users.
reddit is currently not profitable, likely because they hired a ton of people trying to get more growth that didn't happen.
reddit has no good ideas on how to effectively monetize the site, they also have no good concept of who is important for user engagement.

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