Reddit's cofounder said that at first the company felt like 'a homework assignment that got out of hand' rather than a business
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Reddit's cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.

Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

  • dankestnug420@lemmy.ml
    20·
    11 months ago

    I bet it’ll be like the old days where they use bots to post fake comments to appear more populated.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      20·
      11 months ago

      My conspiracy theory is that this is half the reason they disabled the API. They want it to happen, but don’t want to be on the hook for overtly deceiving investors, so as a workaround with plausible deniability they hobble the ability of users to do anything about third party spam.

    • can
      6·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think that’s ever actually stopped.