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42 points

They rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.

Yep, but also, I think spez is done. He’s just cashing out and fuck you etc… etc…

He’ll catch enough to successfully eject and thats that for him. Reddit will die. But we’ll have survived, and the open web will continue.

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Yes, he will cash out but I feel it will only be a fraction of what he hoped to get.

He will be comfortably rich but to someone who expected to be obscenely rich, he will see it as a failure.

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20 points

Serves him right for pissing on Aaron Swartz’s grave. In fact, it’s hardly justice.

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it’s hardly justice.

To quote that great late 20th century philosopher, Terry Pratchett:

There is no justice in the world, there is Just Us. (and many of us are not nice people.)

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20 points

I’m not convinced Reddit will die. I think it will continue to limp along in its zombie state. But I kind of wish you were right, just because I’m still a bit mad about it.

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15 points

I think it will continue to limp along in its zombie state.

Well, Digg still exists

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6 points

Ha I went from Digg to Reddit to Lemmy. Does that make me old?

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I mean, idk man.

Going public does funny things to a company.

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Of course spez is cashing out. That was the whole point of returning as CEO after Ellen Pao was sacrificed to cleanse the site and make it investor friendly. He just wants to cash out more than the $6 million he got the first time.

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