So do reddit employees still have to move to San Francisco in a month?
A new team at Reddit
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#12Heh. I love the conceit that anyone would believe Wong resigned only over "location and amount of money to spend on a lease".
Previously from @sama: "Yishan Wong has a big vision for what reddit can be. I’m excited to watch it play out. " (http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit)
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#13Why did he write: "It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total." Was that a dig at Hacker News?
No, I think it was just to emphasize how much Reddit is growing.
HN is targeted at a specific audience and is more like a subreddit for a particular topic. It wouldn't make sense to compare them directly.
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#14Relevant context: Wong wanted everyone who worked at Reddit to move to San Francisco in an attempt to increase cohesion. http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-f... Some speculated that the move was to please investors, especially after a fundraise. This announcement indicates that the investors...disagreed?
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Conde Nast is not a majority shareholder in the site, so this point is moot. It was simply a professional disagreement on where in the bay area the office would be located.
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#15Why did he write: "It’s interesting to note that during my very brief tenure, reddit added more users than Hacker News has in total." Was that a dig at Hacker News?
No, why would he do that?
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#16Nice words, growing it 5x is great. Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal. But then again, Reddit has had some weird dis-coordinated public communications, maybe more cohesion really was necessary?
I think "growing it 5x" is referring to headcount, not traffic. That's certainly been my impression given the site is still just as unreliable and poorly administrated.
Seems like someone is trying to revive "reddit the startup", with the VC cash infusion, dickhead move to the bay and Sam Altman asking Alexis to "finish the job" (what ridiculously embarrassing wording).
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#17So do reddit employees still have to move to San Francisco in a month?
we are asked to move to the Bay Area still, but timing is flexible per employee. That's been the case since before Yishan stepped down.
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no.
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#19This came out of the blue and unannounced on reddit.com. I have a feeling there's more to this than announced.
I will remind you a few weeks back Yishan shit all over an ex-employee on /r/ama.
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#20Nice words, growing it 5x is great. Resigning over office plans sounds like a last straw sort of thing. In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal. But then again, Reddit has had some weird dis-coordinated public communications, maybe more cohesion really was necessary?
5x growth is great, but Reddit definitely has a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" mentality (probably a fear of "digging"). I struggle to attribute that growth to one CEO's decisions, when it really seems more like inevitable growth due to the success of the product and community that was defined long before he took the helm. Arguably, by Alexis (community) & Steve (product).