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Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Fuck you, Spez
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Fuck Spez, what an asshole
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What's he gonna do with 193 million, trickle down economics? -_-
trickle deez nutz on spez and all oglirarchs
Content Creators (Users): $0.00
Moderators: $0.00
Spez: $193,000,000
"Fuck you, got mine".
From the article:
"Public filings also showed that Huffman and Reddit’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Wong, were paid $286 million in 2023, including stock and option awards (the value accrues over several years, and the current cash value is substantially lower)."
Were they actually compensated that amount in cash? Or is this assuming that the stock value actually amounts to something.
Obviously compensated too much, but it looks like the compensation total is being obfuscated for shock value.
He was paid $341,346 in cash. The rest of the compensation is basically monopoly money until they IPO, and even then it depends on the valuation, strike price, etc. Very much a clickbait tactic since most people don't ever deal with options at a scale like this, or at all.
Let's just agree on one thing here... fuck that snot bag spez...
Stock options. Which means the valuation is completely arbitrary tbh. It probably isn't worth nearly that much and that's probably why they gave themselves that much. Theyre likely overvaluating themselves. Because as soon as they go public, or as soon as they try to unload these stocks, their value will probably plummet.
Either way, these are stock options they could have given to their mods, it literally costs them nothing.
Reddit for reference
For me this is way worse than the 3rd party apps. It's interesting reading the comments there, they know it's over yet they probably will still stay there. It's like an abusive relationship.
"We'll need an alternative but it doesn't exist!"
Lulz
Read through the Reddit thread until I hit your exact comment... Seriously? I swear only the fucking moron masses remain. I don't pity anyone who continued using Reddit after the API fuckery.
They protest about the corporations tone deaf exploitation and monetization of their content... By posting more content for the corporation to monetize... 6+ months after the corporation shat all over them and told them to go fuck themselves.
I read that too, if somebody still has an account they can tell them about the fediverse. But I refuse to make one.
Delusional. Feudalism. Reddit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's super depressing that Aaron Swartz is just straight up ignored as a co-founder these days.
I hope for a slow and painful death to Reddit.
I love that Aaron Swartz is mentioned anytime Spez is mentioned. Aaron will always be a hero to me, and Spez is the antithesis of everything Aaron stood for.
Spez removed him from the founders page on reddit a year or so after he became CEO. The most recent time.
I haven’t been on Reddit since the API mess. How are most users reacting to this news? I would assume either not happy, but ultimately don’t care or ignorant completely.
Recommend reading some of the comments:
Interesting. Similar comments between Reddit and Lemmy on this topic. Like very similar but the tone on Reddit is of the victims whereas here we are wondering why they are still over there when they do not have to be.
From what I gathered the vast majority of them don't know the fediverse exists. Lot of "where do we go". But I saw a couple of comments mention it.
Whoa there, pardner! If posting a reddit URL, please use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com so those of us using privacy tools can still access it.
Edit: Is it just me, or are some reddit links with old.reddit requiring a login?
All my reddit links open in the old version because I set it as the default in the preferences of new Reddit. Maybe you could do the same.
You've been getting blocked too while logged out? "Woah there partner.."? Here's a working link though, https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1axll4s/reddit_files_to_go_public_reveals_that_it_paid/
Doesn't really work, takes me to the log in page instead of the post
It is and has been a mainstream site for a while now. It’s followed the same trajectory as Facebook. The typical user only cares about the topics that interest them. They have zero interest in what’s happening in the background and are fully accustomed to being blasted in the face with ads 24/7.
$804M in revenue... $286M to CEO and COO pay alone... so just two officers are worth 35% of the company's annual revenue? Not profit, because it isn't profitable, but just base revenue. Not even Elon Musk is paid that high a percentage of revenue.
Even ignoring the fact reddit doesn't pay anyone for moderation, and all their other reliance on community freebies... That's insane.
And they want to go public with that info? They believe that's a financially sound position to be in heading into an IPO? Spez is even more stupid than I thought.
I haven’t been on Reddit in a very long time. I wonder if this story or any like it or getting posted on Reddit and surviving for more than five minutes before they’re pulled.
And lost $90M overall. As a certified financial genius, I know how to make Reddit profitable, and it has nothing to do with AI.
Yeah I didn’t really have a frame of reference for this but I was shocked to discover that Tim Cook was ‘only’ paid 62million usd last year. (!) Looking at the success of both companies, Huffman’s pay seems wildly out of proportion.
And they want to go public with that info?
99% of the users left there won't care about this. People here obviously do, but those are the ones that left because of the API debacle. I'd hope they start caring but I am pretty certain they won't.
I'm not talking about reddit users. They have no bearing on public investors frankly. Investors don't give a shit about users, just profitability. And an unprofitable company with no end of unprofitability in sight spending 35% of their limited revenue on two executives is ridiculous.
People will just use buy and dump strategy.
His buddies are probably shorting it.
If he weren't so stupid I'd say he's probably shorting it. I'd be shorting it if I had an investment account that could do that sort of thing.
It’s impossible to underestimate Spez’s intelligence.
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