The Wisdom Wall

“the only consistent thing we could do to drive traffic was make Reddit faster. Because sometimes we'd add a lot of features and traffic would, would go down. Sometimes we'd stagnate for a month or two and traffic would go up. And we're always just like, who knows, let's just make site, let's make the site faster again.…”

“allowing users to have really long headlines, for example, was one thing that we did that, that other sites didn't, or, you know, not censoring swear words, or, you know, not censoring anything to the extent that we could get away with it, allows the community to, to bond and, and really find, find a home there.”

“taking money from other people is, is a, is a great motivator. Um, especially for me, it would have been tough, or I should say, it would have been easy for me to walk away from Hipmunk at any point. And I'd be like, Adam, you know, hey, this isn't working out. Let's take our money back and, you know, go do something…”

“And one of the decisions that we made on Reddit is that we don't want to be moderators. It's, it, it doesn't scale very well.”

“Most people have a, uh, have a desire to not look like fools, and so that they work really hard to at least, uh, feign usefulness, um, whether or not they actually have it, and most of them in the, in the process of feigning usefulness build something useful.”

“one of the things I learned on Reddit was, uh, how to not burn out, or I, I should say, like, on Reddit, I burned out a couple times. I just wouldn't get any work done for a while, because I just didn't feel like working on the same thing. And, and, and, you know, one of the experiences is, or one of the lessons is,…”