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Sahgal: Reddit required a minimum 10% CTR for push notifications
“One of the rules actually, before I talk about diversification, that we did the push notifications, which is a massive lever for Reddit, is we said you're only allowed to send push notifications if it hits a minimum CTR. And if it doesn't hit that CTR, it's sp…”
Steve Huffman Aims to Scale Reddit to Billions of Users by 2024
“And so what I'm truly excited to do, and hopeful that we can succeed at, is over the next five years, providing that not just for the millions of who use Reddit every day, but for, in the future, billions of people, if not everybody.”
Seibert: Tech companies are locking down data, reversing 20 years of open APIs
“You're seeing Reddit, Twitter, et cetera, shut off APIs, put in more strict rate limits, et cetera. And so the whole world is starting to lock down data, which was counter to the trends over the past 20 years, when everything was being pushed more and more ope…”
Sahgal: Daily active unique users is Reddit's North Star metric
“For Reddit, for example we, our North Star metric is DAUQ, DAU Uniques. Probably the most important metric for the company. Leading indicator of revenue, all of that.”
Robinhood's viral waitlist launched accidentally after a viral Reddit post
“Somebody found that way to Robinhood free stock trading. Posted it on Reddit, so it's like a Friday night, and then all of a sudden we're like, man, we're getting a lot of traffic, where is this coming from? So we actually hooked up Google Analytics, which tha…”
Tilt rejected a company mascot designed by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
“So the background there is the founder of Reddit, who has a very adorable mascot in Snoo on that you see next to every Reddit logo. He built, he designed us a mascot, and we ended up not using it.”
Reddit Was the Fifth Most Visited Website in the US in 2019
“Today, this company ranks as the number five most visited website in the US”
Reddit created a 'Fix the Video Player' subreddit to collect bug reports
“We actually even created a subreddit called Fix the Video Player”
Linda Lian: AWS launched its developer community programs around 2017
“This was around 2017 when we really started building all of the developer community engagement programs that AWS still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.”
Matt Mochary's coaching client list includes partners at Benchmark, Sequoia, and Kleiner
“On the VC side, Matt has worked with the likes of Peter Fenton at Benchmark, Several Sequoia partners, Hemond at GC, and Mamoon at Kleiner, to name a few. As for founders, Matt's worked with the founders of Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Reddit, Flexport, and many mor…”