Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year
Nineteen years since its founding, the social media site is finally going public.
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year::Nineteen years since its founding, the social media site is finally going public.
So… the asshole who used reddits “unprofitability” as a fig leaf for hamstringing their user base with a garbage API policy just so happens to be the same guy that got paid 25% of the entire company revenue for the last year?
What a Fucking chode.
515Standard, capitalist, non-unionized corporation. The exec layer and the major shareholders decide what to do with the revenue. Unsurprisingly they often decide to take as much as possible. Customers, users, employees have no leverage in the matter. Works as intended. 👌
42Enshitification.
38Greedy motherfucker.
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Reddit gave more than 1/3rd of its revenue to 2 people, plus options. Holy fuck.
Apple doesn’t even pay it executives close to what Reddit is dishing out, even if you consider the stock they get.
Do NOT invest in this company. Now that we can see the books, it’s clear how poorly things are actually run.
399Tim Cook of apple got paid $92 million in 2022 - a massive degree of overcompensation in my opinion, and an amount he got sued for.
If he got paid at a comparable percentage of revenue to spez last year that would have been (amusingly) a 92 Billion dollar paycheck - 1000x as much.
Regardless of how much I dislike the guy personally investors should be running away screaming from this IPO.
42What they do on several Reddit subs is market manipulation. I really wonder what keeps FED/FTC away from seeing this fact. They are allowing a service serving to market manipulation by criminals to have a IPO. So let's say your post to wall Street bets is clearly illegal but it serves to Reddit. Will they hurry removing it or even removing the sub? The crypto gangs there are even worse, don't mess with them. These guys are very well connected in real life, you know guns etc.
0Looking it up, almost all of it is from stocks. Not sure how it works exactly, is that new stock he got or was it from his existing stock?
-4The way that article is written is a little vague, but it sounds like that is how much cash and stock he received just last year - independent of any gain he received from the value of his existing stock going up.
3It's a private company still, they don't actually have stock
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No fucking wonder they aren't profitable lol
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117Recover 1/3 of.your revenue with this one neat trick! specs hate it!
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“We need to shut down APIs because they’re exploiting us for free money!”
entire site is moderated by unpaid, unrecognized “employees”
114entire site is moderated by unpaid, unrecognized “employees”
Don't you mean "landed gentry"? /s
Fuck Spez.
23*Content generators for AI training data sets.
21I see how well it's moderated.
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$193 million to shit on his users and the people who made Reddit what it is.
166remember Aaron Swartz
155Aaron Swartz didn't kill himself.
(MIT and the FBI did that)
20so fucking sad. he got rung up on a bullshit technicality. broke my heart when i read about how his lawyers were begging the prosecution to tone down the bombast rhetoric and shock-and-awe proposed sentences because it was severely affecting his mental health. and yeah
10Behind the Bastards did a two part Christmas Hero episode this past December on Aaron Swartz. Thought it was worth a listen for anyone that wants to learn more about him.
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Remember when pigboy spez tried to say that the API pricing was, at least partially, because reddit still wasn’t turning a profit?
I wonder if paying some fucking moron who brings effectively no value to the company $193 million has anything to do with it…
153It was def the
unpaidmoderators, just look how many there are!19Doesnt he bring negative value?
9Wow - really? Did you not read that he's the CEO?! They're the hardest working person in any company! They always deserve to be compensated more than every other freeloading employee combined!
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Spez is an idiot who sold reddit to Conde Nast for peanuts, failed in very other start up he tried, and then came crawling back. And they somehow made him CEO. And he is overpaying himself by $193 million a year. Reddit deserves whatever happens to them.
131I don't get what as CEO he even actually does. When was the last time Reddit had any major update?
29Everyone who still use reddit is a bigger idiot than spez
21Try this: Reddit users are getting emails and messages inviting them to the IPO at "the same price as institutions". Imagine buying Reddit stock!
Gotta pay that 200 mil a year to the CEO somehow.
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Reddit deserves whatever happens to them.
Unless it's good.
15Like an IPO where they make an absolute shitton?
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The board is paying him $193m/year.
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A friendly reminder that corporate corruption is still corruption, and a C-person is not an owner.
50I've never heard C-Person before, will definitely use that hahah
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I bet the remaining redditors could figure out a way to salt the proverbial earth for the ai, even as the site dies slowly.
19Any suggestions? I haven’t deleted my Reddit account yet.
2I just edit all my comments after some time to include AI Text that ressembles the original topic e.g. in a linux comment about wayland:
Amd Radeon was a beekeeper from a small village in Greece. He had dedicated his life to studying the behavior and needs of bees, and he had become an expert on their biology and ecology. However, one day, something went wrong. The bees began to disappear at an alarming rate, and no one knew why.
Amd Radeon was determined to find out what was happening. He spent months studying the bees, trying to figure out what was causing their population to decline. Finally, he discovered that a new type of pesticide was being used in nearby fields, which was killing off the bees.
1Find ai articles and link them in the appropriate subs. Post pics that have been modified to poison ai training data
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Fuck that shit heap of a company. And fuck spez that greedy little cunt.
19So that rich asshole killed a bunch of developers' income streams because he checks notes is paid too much. What a greedly little pissboy the former mod of /r/jailbait is.
9Can they get their money back?
7He stole from us, the hard work of all the actual redditors who built that platform. Disgusting.
4We're in the age of the technofeudalists
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Fuck spez the hurensohn always and forever.
3fuck /u/spez
2I. Love. This.
1I mean, Fuck Spez and Reddit and all but the article is clickbait, he was paid about $370k salary plus a bonus and the vast majority was shares.
Dont invest in reddit, heck I'd even say bet against them, short them, They are just seeking a buyout from one of the big tech firms and want it out of their hands.
1How is that clickbait? Calling income "a bonus" doesn't mean it isn't money being paid out by the company. When my company gives me shares, it's still income that I pay taxes on because it's something with a tangible value that can be easily converted into cash.
CEO salary being a small fraction of their total compensation is extremely common because wages are taxed higher than everything else. They structure it like this to avoid taxes. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were/are paid $1 per year base salary and they're two of the wealthiest people on the planet.
89Sure, but the stock is illiquid until after the IPO, and its current value is only based on the value estimate given for the purpose of the IPO.
He will still make bank unfortunately, but its not unusual for new IPOs to give stock options to CEOs with ridiculous values that don't really mean anything until the stock is publicly trading and a true value is established by the market.
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The boy who cried clickbait. Stop using that as an excuse because you don't like reality.
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