Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B
by hitekker on Friday June 16, 2017 @11:07PM
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1. Right, they shouldn't, but unfortunately, they had to.
2. From what I hear, Reddit wants the best, but the best are aware that Reddit's brand conceals well-documented dysfunction:
https://www.recode.net/2015/7/13/11614676/reddit-chief-engin....
https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...
The links go on.
3. I worked recently at a startup where the product was a shambling, swelling mass of features, implicitly designed to obscure its missing core value proposition to both investors and to the founders. There is definitely a difference in the process; perhaps not a meaningful difference in the outcome, which for those invested in the company is impotence, toxicity, despair, etc.
2. Come on, it's Reddit. I feel like many many developers would be interested on brand alone. I was, for a time.
3. Possible. But there's a difference between adding random directionless features (which they haven't really done), and not doing anything at all (which they have).