Fidelity estimates Reddit’s holdings are at $15.4 million, which is down over 7% from the fund’s estimates of $16.6 million from this past April.
Fascinating. Should this be legit, this is solid proof for the protest having a tangible financial impact, right?
Nah. Doesn’t even account for the protest.
FTA:
this most recent valuation only accounts for the worth of the company’s holdings up to May 31.
They are PROPER fucked for Q3.
The IT tech industry isn’t doing great currently. Everything was fine as long as there were a practically infinite amount of money going around, but lately investors have been increasingly demanding signs of profitability over “limitless” expansion and growth.
That’s why a lot of companies have been doing these seemingly drastic changes lately. It may absolutely result in long term damages, but that is not their main concern at the moment. In some cases this is also somewhat a moment for these companies to show their cards and prove that they actually deserve the evaluation that they been given. I suspect that there will be quite a lot of agitated people in the coming months and years.
Remember that there is a general decline in tech stocks at the moment. A few names are being elevated by the AI boom, but for the most part the party has been over for quite a while now. If you keep an eye open, you’ll see stories about a number of different tech stocks declining.
Every time I see such a story, I tend to reply with “why would Elon Musk do this?” Since people acted like Twitter was a unique case being caused exclusively by his leadership, but we’ve seen massive declines in many companies including Meta and Netflix.
True but most tech companies have been making their services worse and driving away customers
I’m sorry for people losing money because they believed Spaz’s “This will blow over.” Not sorry to see Reddit tanking.
The only people losing money here are corporate private investors. I hope they lose every fucking cent.
I couldn’t care less about corporate investors. They deserve what they’re getting. But far too many ordinary people have been forced to put their retirement funds in the stock market (via 401(k) accounts instead of retirement plans), and I hope they’re safe.
Reddit hasn’t had their IPO yet. The only way that regular people are invested in it are by being invested in equity firms that own part of Reddit today. As best I can tell, the only one such company that (a) is invested in reddit, and (b) is public is Tencent.
So, for now, people are safe. It’s investment managers at private businesses that might get in trouble.
If one believes a CEO over financial data and technical analysis they are not an investor, they’re a gambler. As such it is appropriate and expected that they lose money over time. Reddit is not profitable and does not have a clear path to profitability. Anyone who would invest in such a company is a fool.
For those who didn’t read the article, important note.
The valuation decrease was as of May 31.
It wasn’t even after the Reddit apocalypse! What is going to happen next?
I think that’s a fair take that’s likely to happen. It really depends now on what Reddit does to try to normalize things or blow things up more. I think if they try to just rebuild relationships with their new group of users, they may survive.
But they also seem equally as likely to find a new way to screw themselves over…
They still haven’t replaced >90% of the moderators… it will take months, probably longer to feel the full effects. People will test it, and will get creative. There is a decent chance if they aren’t actively working on a sophisticated plan for thay, the website turns into an alt-right cess pool with CP that slips through the cracks.
The reality is that unless you have immense, immense scale (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn), making money off social media is impossible. Twitter barely made any money before Elon Musk took it over, and it’s making less now.
Reddit is pseudo-anonymous too and is harder to monetize, because high ad rates come from being able to identify your users.
This explains the spez iron boot. The business is in a lot of trouble and he’s concerned about his job and the jobs of everyone around him. Ironically, the iron boot is making the whole situation worse. Because spez isn’t very good at strategy. Often, bankers are appeased when a business takes bold decisions to cut things. But in this case, it has only revealed what a fragile business Reddit has, from a Wall Street perspective, anyway. Associating himself with Elon Musk is absolutely suicide after that fool got taken for billions in the Twitter sale and has only damaged it further since then. But like I said, not very strategic there Mr spez…
