Reddit's CEO said employees had a tendency to put big-picture idealism before business.

  • Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.

  • There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.

  • iridebikes@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Ah yes, Steve showing his true colors.

    “Forget moral convictions or a greater purpose than self enrichment. Reddit is public now baby, this thing makes money, not societal progress!”

    And in the vacuum, Lemmy rises up.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I might buy ONE(1) share of reddit and ask for it to be directly registered to a stock certificate so I can someday point to it and say “I personally ate a piece of its corpse” out of

    pure

    s p i t e .

  • notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Maybe people should go back to “not working very hard” because Reddit has spiraled into a shit hole ever since it’s users became ad revenue generators.

    Fuck Steve Huffman, fuck Reddit, Nazi sympathizing shithole website.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Was that the same idealism that led to the jailbait and creepshot subreddits being allowed to flourish? Or Covid misinfo? Deepfakes? The chimpire? Qanon? All that stuff definitely wasn’t operating clandestinely.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      1 day ago

      I’ve heard from writeups from former employees that the internal culture is a perfect reflection of Reddit as a whole. Which says a lot.

  • Kekzkrieger@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Guy who never worked hard in his life tries to tell other people to work hard.

    Yes sometimes these guys (CEOs) do longer hours, but it consits of eating dinner with other Cs, looking at presentations (which they cant judge because they generally have no idea how the actual business runs), sitting in meeting, flying to other meetings and pretending to look at some company numbers and of course having the very very high responsibility that they keep talking about that they actually never ever have.

    Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ? You judge that.

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      1 day ago

      Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ?

      x50?

      Pigboy gave himself a $193 million bonus. Do you think the average reddit worker made $3.86 million?

    • egerlach@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I can’t remember who it was, but sometime in the last few years a VC or CEO wrote an article documenting their day and how they “worked 12 hours a day” or something like that. What I remember most is that their accounting of their work included their time at the gym, at least one meal, and something else that few if any employers would consider “working time”.

      I agree that sometimes C-suite execs do work long hours sometimes, and I’ll differ from you in that sometimes those long hours are legitimate and valuable for a company. IMO, it’s not the norm nor is it generally worth the premium that most companies pay for those hours.