Reddit

10 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Dixon · said 158 times in 79 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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2018 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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Jan 2, 2019
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Dixon: Key signing parties were identity verification standard pre-social media
“It was the best practice until we had Twitter and Reddit and Facebook.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:36 a16z Podcast | Establishing Online Identity is Hard -- It Shouldn't Be
Jan 2, 2019 positive
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Alex Le: Native video uploads unlocked content creation from Reddit lurkers
“The most incredible thing we've found is people who are not posting any content at all were willing to do video. There's this amazing low barrier to entry that we have now with video and the consumer landscape where everyone just feels like they can do it, I t…”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:13 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Alex Le: Internet culture flows from 4chan to Reddit to Facebook
“Four Chan, which is another weird place on the internet, is like raw dream space, and we are maybe a level up from that where we're refining that content and making it more interesting, and then it goes off and spreads to Facebook.”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:20 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Jan 2, 2019
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Alex Le: Reddit relies on 50,000 active daily volunteer moderators
“So we have about 50,000 active on any given day, and those are self-run communities.”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:50 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Alex Le: Reddit aims to map the world's entire interest graph
“With Reddit, we hope that we can map the entire Interest graph that exists in the world, and provide a community for any topic that you might be interested in”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:14 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Jan 2, 2019
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Alex Le: Reddit video creators seek community interaction over YouTube-style fame
“The other thing that we saw with video was that people weren't trying to upload video to, you know, become famous or become like a YouTube famous person. They were just Uploading a video because they wanted to share it with their community of friends”
Alex Le Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:41 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Dixon: a16z discovered many of its early crypto investments on Reddit
“This is how we discovered a bunch of, a lot of the cryptocurrency stuff, by the way, like that I mentioned, it's almost all happening on Reddit.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:32 a16z Podcast | Community and Culture, Online
Sep 2, 2020
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Sivak: Game studios should use existing community platforms over proprietary forums
“And more and more, I think you're better off choosing an existing platform than running your own forums.”
Seth Sivak Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 25:29 From Unknown Title to Viral Game: 12 Growth Lessons From Spellbreak
Sep 30, 2025 positive
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Fedus: AI physics requires generating new experimental data, not web scrapes
“The technology that we think is necessary to do it has really just emerged in the last couple of years, and this data Isn't like on a Reddit forum or something like you need to actually go produce experimental data, simulation data.”
Liam Fedus Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 16:08 Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
Nov 26, 2025
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Mainstream media now reacts at the end of social news cycles
“They used to set the tone, and now they're at the very end. At the very end of all the stuff that's been said on Twitter, or Reddit, or, it eventually spills out, and then media is like, oh, what is this thing? But like, it's at the very end, right? And that, …”
Margit Wennmachers Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 49:32 The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
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