We live under corporate feudalism
$804M in revenue… $286M to CEO and COO pay alone… so just two officers are worth 35% of the company’s annual revenue? Not profit, because it isn’t profitable, but just base revenue. Not even Elon Musk is paid that high a percentage of revenue.
Even ignoring the fact reddit doesn’t pay anyone for moderation, and all their other reliance on community freebies… That’s insane.
And they want to go public with that info? They believe that’s a financially sound position to be in heading into an IPO? Spez is even more stupid than I thought.
It’s impossible to underestimate Spez’s intelligence.
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Yeah I didn’t really have a frame of reference for this but I was shocked to discover that Tim Cook was ‘only’ paid 62million usd last year. (!) Looking at the success of both companies, Huffman’s pay seems wildly out of proportion.
And lost $90M overall. As a certified financial genius, I know how to make Reddit profitable, and it has nothing to do with AI.
His buddies are probably shorting it.
If he weren’t so stupid I’d say he’s probably shorting it. I’d be shorting it if I had an investment account that could do that sort of thing.
And they want to go public with that info?
99% of the users left there won’t care about this. People here obviously do, but those are the ones that left because of the API debacle. I’d hope they start caring but I am pretty certain they won’t.
I’m not talking about reddit users. They have no bearing on public investors frankly. Investors don’t give a shit about users, just profitability. And an unprofitable company with no end of unprofitability in sight spending 35% of their limited revenue on two executives is ridiculous.
People will just use buy and dump strategy.
I haven’t been on Reddit in a very long time. I wonder if this story or any like it or getting posted on Reddit and surviving for more than five minutes before they’re pulled.
Public filings also showed that Huffman and Reddit’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Wong, were paid $286 million in 2023, including stock and option awards (the value accrues over several years, and the current cash value is substantially lower).
Over a FOURTH of the company’s yearly revenue is going to TWO people?
Well, it’s not like anyone here ever gave them free labor, right?
The article states that part of the compensation was stock and stock options. Likely incentive programs from previous years that finally paid off.
edit: looks like spez got 600k salary, and the rest of the compensation is solely based on the stock’s performance… and he can’t cash that out unless someone is willing to buy all that reddit stock.
I have no doubt some really dumb bag holders are willing to hold more bags.
Well he has been grooming them on reddit for something… it will be a blood bath
What are they supposed to spend it on? Developing and implementing features that users and moderators actually want?
TL;DR - Spez is a greedy little pig boy.
Content Creators (Users): $0.00
Moderators: $0.00
Spez: $193,000,000“Fuck you, got mine”.
I haven’t been on Reddit since the API mess. How are most users reacting to this news? I would assume either not happy, but ultimately don’t care or ignorant completely.
It is and has been a mainstream site for a while now. It’s followed the same trajectory as Facebook. The typical user only cares about the topics that interest them. They have zero interest in what’s happening in the background and are fully accustomed to being blasted in the face with ads 24/7.
Recommend reading some of the comments:
Interesting. Similar comments between Reddit and Lemmy on this topic. Like very similar but the tone on Reddit is of the victims whereas here we are wondering why they are still over there when they do not have to be.
From what I gathered the vast majority of them don’t know the fediverse exists. Lot of “where do we go”. But I saw a couple of comments mention it.
Whoa there, pardner! If posting a reddit URL, please use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com so those of us using privacy tools can still access it.
Edit: Is it just me, or are some reddit links with old.reddit requiring a login?
You’ve been getting blocked too while logged out? “Woah there partner…”? Here’s a working link though, https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1axll4s/reddit_files_to_go_public_reveals_that_it_paid/
All my reddit links open in the old version because I set it as the default in the preferences of new Reddit. Maybe you could do the same.
Doesn’t really work, takes me to the log in page instead of the post
It’s super depressing that Aaron Swartz is just straight up ignored as a co-founder these days.
I hope for a slow and painful death to Reddit.
Spez removed him from the founders page on reddit a year or so after he became CEO. The most recent time.
I love that Aaron Swartz is mentioned anytime Spez is mentioned. Aaron will always be a hero to me, and Spez is the antithesis of everything Aaron stood for.
Fuck Spez, what an asshole
Fuck spez
Fuck spez
What’s he gonna do with 193 million, trickle down economics? -_-
trickle deez nutz on spez and all oglirarchs
From the article:
“Public filings also showed that Huffman and Reddit’s chief operating officer, Jennifer Wong, were paid $286 million in 2023, including stock and option awards (the value accrues over several years, and the current cash value is substantially lower).”
Were they actually compensated that amount in cash? Or is this assuming that the stock value actually amounts to something.
Obviously compensated too much, but it looks like the compensation total is being obfuscated for shock value.
He was paid $341,346 in cash. The rest of the compensation is basically monopoly money until they IPO, and even then it depends on the valuation, strike price, etc. Very much a clickbait tactic since most people don’t ever deal with options at a scale like this, or at all.
Let’s just agree on one thing here… fuck that snot bag spez…
Stock options. Which means the valuation is completely arbitrary tbh. It probably isn’t worth nearly that much and that’s probably why they gave themselves that much. Theyre likely overvaluating themselves. Because as soon as they go public, or as soon as they try to unload these stocks, their value will probably plummet.
Either way, these are stock options they could have given to their mods, it literally costs them nothing.
Fuck you, Spez
Delusional. Feudalism. Reddit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reddit for reference
“We’ll need an alternative but it doesn’t exist!”
Lulz
Read through the Reddit thread until I hit your exact comment… Seriously? I swear only the fucking moron masses remain. I don’t pity anyone who continued using Reddit after the API fuckery.
They protest about the corporations tone deaf exploitation and monetization of their content… By posting more content for the corporation to monetize… 6+ months after the corporation shat all over them and told them to go fuck themselves.
I read that too, if somebody still has an account they can tell them about the fediverse. But I refuse to make one.
For me this is way worse than the 3rd party apps. It’s interesting reading the comments there, they know it’s over yet they probably will still stay there. It’s like an abusive relationship.
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