Dash: Reddit community consensus is more trustworthy than friends' opinions
Suchit Dash · Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 13, 2023 · at 0:02
Suchit Dash, VP of Core Product Experience at Reddit and former Dubsmash cofounder, discusses why community curation creates higher trust than personal friend networks.
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“People actually weigh in, and it's become so trusted, because the aggregation of the community and the community actually giving it weight on what is valuable and not, is more trustworthy than necessarily what your friends think about something.”
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