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Reddit Inc.'s stock-trading enthusiasts made it a household name by backing companies that Wall Street wouldn't. For Reddit's own initial public offering, a group of them are about to flip the script.

In the days after the social-media company filed for an IPO, thousands of members of the WallStreetBets forum — which boasts around 15 million users and helped popularize meme stocks like GameStop Corp. — voted to boost a forum post about shorting the company, a sharp reversal of their typically bullish ways. Their avowed reasons varied from the company's lack of profitability to competitive concerns, and mostly centered on spite.

(paywalled on Bloomberg website)

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, Reddit was offering shares to high profile users/moderators. The CEO paid himself very near $200 million last year— and the company has never been profitable.

🚩🚩RED FLAGS 🚩🚩🚩🚩

I will stay far away from anything to do with it. (See Robinhood)

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago

I got a bunch of those emails too. Was not high profile, but had some karma.

Any money I put into that company via stock purchases would just line Steve Huffman's pockets during his exit ~~scam~~ plan.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure it was anyone who reached a certain karma threshold... I'm far from high profile and got multiple emails asking me to invest

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 10 months ago

Think account age also had to do with it.

Been getting spammed on the email I have tied to the account I registered to squat my "real" online name. Think I made a grand total of one comment on that account something like a decade ago.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They offered shares to me as well, and I am anything but high profile…

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Lol They want your 💰💴💵