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.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    111 year ago

    And what could they use the money to do? How much innovation has there been on Reddit since it was written? Fancier Reddit gold? A shitty redesign? Video hosting that doesn’t work? Image hosting so bad someone had to make totally separate website for it?

    • @TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      21 year ago

      Look at a the way everything in tech is moving.

      We are in the age of of surveillance capitalism. It will make itself profitable with our data. Maybe identifying people, creating profiles about beliefs and personality, etc.

      What else could they possibly do? It’s proven profitable and that’s what they want.

    • RBG
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      11 year ago

      Well recently more people have been using the official reddit app. No relation to anything going on, by the way, just the app getting better, obviously.

    • Gamma
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      Well they control the mobile apps now, which is most of the userbase. The redesign is still terrible but nobody has much of a choice about image hosting since it’s built-in.

      The only thing I can really think they “improved” is that the new gold system allows to be paid for your content:

      If you’re eligible for the Contributor Program and your content meets the requirements for monetization, you can receive cash from Reddit for the gold and karma you earn on qualifying contributions.

      But that’s definitely not going to help them be profitable lol