Reddit’s Chief Says He Wants It to ‘Grow Up.’ Will Its Community Let It?
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As the social media site matures, its users and moderators have made their displeasure about corporate changes known, putting the company into a bind.

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    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Spez has 2000 employees and nobody that can run a server.

      According to his comments, he paying for server time. If he is not lying (and lying would also be making material false statements ahead of an IPO - even rich people go to jail for stealing from rich people) he a spending $10 million per year for just the Apollo traffic. That means he is paying 100s of millions per year total.

      For that spend a decent CEO would bring that in house.