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How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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Still doesn't block ads from the Facebook mobile app. Even if you install a root cert to MITM, some apps pin certs.

Of course, there are ways around this: you could make a copy of Facebook that doesn’t pin certificates.

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Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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post #23

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Still doesn't block ads from the Facebook mobile app. Even if you install a root cert to MITM, some apps pin certs.

Of course, there are ways around this: you could make a copy of Facebook that doesn’t pin certificates.

True. Not for iOS though, atleast without a jailbreak.

Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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I'm surprised this worked. I would have assumed he had adblock of some sort.

Mobile apps and some mobile browsers don't support ad block. While I have ublock on my laptop, i still get ads when I am on my phone which ironically is where these companies get most of their revenue these days.

FF on mobile supports ublock. Not going to help in apps, but you can have everything open into FF.

Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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I'm surprised this worked. I would have assumed he had adblock of some sort.

Anecdotal, but I personally don't block ads on Facebook because I want to see what other people are advertising. Perhaps he has the same philosophy.

Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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> My first thought was email. I can just email him! But that’s boring. > What about getting my article to the top of Hacker News? > The problem is, I didn’t think my article would be interesting enough to a large crowd to make it to the top of HN. Ha! He not only played Reddit's CEO with a Facebook ad… He also got his blog post into the HN top-ten (today) . Well done my friend, well done.

What's more: he concludes with "P.S. I am out again looking for new opportunities". So besides being excellent at putting his work in front of his target audience, he may go 2 for 2 on the job front.

Chris got Steve's attention but never worked at reddit[1], Nina got Brian's attention[2] but never worked at Airbnb[3] and Feross got Chad's attention[4] but never worked at YouTube[5] even though TechCrunch jumped to report he accepted the job[6].

None of them was actually ever offered one.

Make what you want of it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17110763

[2] https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/590561521576587265

[3] https://eatwritewalk.com/2015/07/14/the-good-the-bad-and-the...

[4] https://twitter.com/chad_hurley/status/24129459657

[5] https://www.quora.com/Why-would-Feross-Aboukhadijeh-turn-dow...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/youtube-instant-instant/

Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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> My first thought was email. I can just email him! But that’s boring. > What about getting my article to the top of Hacker News? > The problem is, I didn’t think my article would be interesting enough to a large crowd to make it to the top of HN. Ha! He not only played Reddit's CEO with a Facebook ad… He also got his blog post into the HN top-ten (today) . Well done my friend, well done.

Can't you buy upvotes? Bunch of accounts running with a script through Tor?

Not sure why you are being downvoted.

Yes, you can buy upvotes on Reddit. It's about 5 bucks for a couple hundred, often more than enough to get to the front page of mid sized subreddit.

Re: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

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I didn't end up working for Reddit. I wanted the head of search position that was open, but they thought I didn't have enough experience. We talked about an IC role, but I would have had to move to the SF area (I live in DC) as they didn't allow remote employees. I couldn't justify uprooting my family (wife and 3 little kids) to move to a more expensive part of the country for less money than I can make in DC, even w…

How many years have you been at this? How do/did you learn the more architectural problem solving skills? I ask because I am pretty skilled technically, but only down in the weeds. Reading your blog post about the two techniques and how to combine them, I can understand, but I would not come up with this myself.

Nearly 20 years. I learned by attempting to do things that were kind of ridiculous. Like building a large scale general web search engine with hundreds of millions of pages (that was a lot in 2004) using 30+ servers in my townhouse. Go build something ambitious and you will learn how to put it all together!
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