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

Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by guessmyname on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:32PM (#17110667)

> 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.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by prokes on Saturday May 19, 2018 @11:33PM (#17111050)

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.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by ronilan on Saturday May 19, 2018 @11:59PM (#17111130)

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/

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by relyio on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:31AM (#17111395)

Feross was actually offered (at least) an internship per the link you provided.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by ronilan on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:45AM (#17111426)

I meant an offer, not an “offer”.

I don’t think there was one.

I might be wrong tough and Feross is around here. If he’d want to clarify I’m sure he can. So can Chad, btw.

But it’s been almost 8 years, so...

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by swyx on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:24AM (#17111376)

not sure what to make of it to be honest. they showed resourcefulness, which is good. but there's more to being a good employee at that. esp at a startup beyond a certain scale.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by criddell on Sunday May 20, 2018 @08:44AM (#17112478)

Would Reddit still be considered a startup?

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by InitialLastName on Sunday May 20, 2018 @11:10AM (#17113046)

I'm with you. This is the same Reddit that's owned by the ~44th largest private company in the world?

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by franciscop on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:36PM (#17110682)

It is an amazing way and very growth-hackish (in the true way, not just marketing rebranded). As a long-term HN visitor, I really enjoyed the writeup and I'm not surprised at all it's in the front-page of HN.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by atomical on Saturday May 19, 2018 @09:33PM (#17110671)

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

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by ryanx435 on Saturday May 19, 2018 @11:59PM (#17111132)

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.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by mistercow on Sunday May 20, 2018 @01:49AM (#17111435)

But egregiously violating the TOS and general spirit of reddit seems like not the best way to get a job there.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by llao on Sunday May 20, 2018 @06:24AM (#17112129)

"Growth hacking". Perfectly fits the VC-funded startup spirit.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by atomical on Sunday May 20, 2018 @09:34PM (#17115667)

Noted. I'm sure they do it on Hacker News as well.

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Re:How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an... by atomical on Sunday May 20, 2018 @09:33PM (#17115665)

I meant on Hacker News.

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