Chris Slowe
CTO and Founding Engineer, Reddit. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Everything Chris Slowe said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Slowe: Reddit pseudo-anonymity drives authenticity by removing influencer incentives
“Even though we are sort of pseudo anonymous, the incentives are such that Authenticity is what comes out of that because there's no reason to try to be like an influencer.”
Slowe: Early co-founder equity disputes signal a lack of trust
“It's a really bad sign. It's a sign of lack of, it's like, it's actually, that's probably, it's like, it's a sign of like immediate lack of trust. It's like, they don't actually trust each other enough.”
Slowe: CSS remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable
“You know, first discoveries of some of the new kids, the new things that come along with CSS, which, you know, to this day remains one of the worst toolkits imaginable.”
Slowe: Sidebar editing had the biggest impact on Reddit's community culture
“The feature that no one really notices that I think had the biggest impact was We gave mods the ability to edit the content on the side of the page where you could actually explain like the community, just say what it's about, because you had to be able to say…”
Reddit Never Had More Than 10 Employees Until 2011
“We never had more than 10 employees up until 20 11.”
Slowe: Engineering leader output becomes the people, not the code
“When you go through that shift of having to actually, your output is not the software, it's the people who are building the software now. And you become more and more removed from the actual day-to-day software development.”
Slowe: Reddit's core ranking algorithm was mostly unchanged for 15 years
“We had it publicly In the open source version of Reddit from about 2008 till 2017. And honestly, that, that algorithm didn't change markedly for most of the first 15 years of Reddit. So it was a very straightforward setup just based on, like, age of the conten…”
Slowe: Reddit opened user community creation in 2008, producing AMAs
“The real change was in 2008 when we actually opened up the floodgates and just said like, Hey, if you want to, if you think you have a good idea for a community, go make one. And then that was like the initial burst of just like all sorts of random stuff that …”
Slowe: Reddit reached 1M monthly uniques in late 2006 and 10M in 2010
“We didn't hit ten million uniques per month until 2010. So we're talking about like, I think we just about hit two million, we hit about a million a month in sort of mid, mid to late oh six.”
Reddit Gold Made Approximately $100K in Its First Week in 2010
“I think in that first week, we raked in the, at the time, eye-watering number of like a 100,000 dollars from users just kind of donating to Reddit.”
Slowe: Travel platforms monetize hotels much more easily than flights
“It turns out that hotels are much easier to monetize than flights. Flights, you're making maybe a few dollars a ticket, whereas hotels usually get a percentage.”
Slowe: Reddit Relied on Alien Blue Acquisition for iOS with No Android Solution
“In 20, 1320, 14 it's after I left, but like Reddit bought one of the major iOS apps called Alien Blue. And then kind of like, you know, relied on that as the iOS solution for a while. With no equivalent solution for Android.”
Slowe: Reddit achieved product-market fit with the launch of subreddits
“I think that I would say if we're gonna pick a date, I would say probably like when we launched subreddits. It was pretty clear that that, like, was a thing that meant that Reddit could continue to grow in scale past a relatively small community of nerds, fran…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Chris's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 PRODUCT MARKET FITLEDGER | CTO and Founding Engineer, Reddit | 1 | 13 | 100% 6/6 | full record on A Product Market Fit Show → |