Reddit

15 statements across 8 episodes · 7 bullish · 7 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2023 by Dave Morin · across every show →

Everything said about Reddit, oldest first

Jun 16, 2023 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Dave Morin: Reddit blackouts caused meaningful degradation of Google Search results
“I think one of the interesting things this morning was that the somebody did an analysis that Google search results are meaningfully worse off today because of the Reddit stuff going on.”
Dave Morin Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 10:09 #2: Reddit and the death of the public internet; the end of the VC "epoch" · More or Less Podcast
Feb 23, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Dave Morin calls investing in the Reddit IPO a slam dunk
“I would actually invest in this IPO. Like it's just, it makes, it's a slam dunk.”
Dave Morin Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 12:23 #35: 2024 IPO Dreams, Apple's Sports Game and Reddit's Biz Gamble · More or Less Podcast
Feb 23, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Reddit will probably not build a large-scale advertising business
“And my sense is honestly that the fact that Twitter hasn't been able to means the answer is probably no.”
Sam Lessin Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 8:38 #35: 2024 IPO Dreams, Apple's Sports Game and Reddit's Biz Gamble · More or Less Podcast
Feb 23, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: Only marginal tech companies will IPO this spring
“Only marginal companies will go public in the next several months, and only if they have to. And Reddit might be one of those marginal companies. And maybe Klarna is.”
Sam Lessin Feb 23, 2024 ▶ 27:27 #35: 2024 IPO Dreams, Apple's Sports Game and Reddit's Biz Gamble · More or Less Podcast
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Insight
Julia Hartz says niche is the new mass in post-pandemic live events
“Niche is the new mass. So people are absolutely wanting to be in more highly curated experiences that map to those groups that they found on Reddit.”
Julia Hartz Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 36:21 #38: Hartz and Minds and TikTok w/ Special Guest Julia Hartz · More or Less Podcast
Mar 15, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Julia Hartz says Reddit's IPO valuation is justified by real-life community demand
“I'm not surprised that Reddit's going out at the valuation they're going out at, because I see it play out in real life in a way that's absolutely skyrocketing.”
Julia Hartz Mar 15, 2024 ▶ 36:36 #38: Hartz and Minds and TikTok w/ Special Guest Julia Hartz · More or Less Podcast
Mar 22, 2024 positive
Opinion
Sam Lessin: Reddit is a much easier business to own than Instacart
“I actually, I'd much rather own, as I guess I do, a little bit of Reddit than Instacart for a thousand reasons. It's a much easier business.”
Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 37:08 #39: How (Not?) to Exit Your AI Company, Analyzing the New Google-Apple Tie Up · More or Less Podcast
Mar 22, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Sam Lessin: Reddit cannot generate billions just by selling data streams
“When you say, how are you going to make billions of dollars, which is all that matters to a company that's a six billion dollar company trying to grow, it is not going to be selling small data streams.”
Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024 ▶ 39:46 #39: How (Not?) to Exit Your AI Company, Analyzing the New Google-Apple Tie Up · More or Less Podcast
Mar 29, 2024 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Dave Morin: Reddit and Truth Social have comparable market caps despite revenue disparity
“Reddit's sitting at a 9.1 billion dollar market cap today. You know, I need to go look at what the, what their revenue looks like, but I mean, their revenue is somewhere in the ballpark of half a billion dollars, right? Yeah. And meanwhile, truth social is als…”
Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 18:27 #40: Reddit IPO, Apple v. DOJ and the Return of the Power Lunch · More or Less Podcast
Mar 29, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: More companies will likely attempt IPOs before summer 2024
“So I do think we're probably going to see a few more companies try to get out over the next month or two, especially before summertime.”
Brit Morin Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 17:55 #40: Reddit IPO, Apple v. DOJ and the Return of the Power Lunch · More or Less Podcast
May 31, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Dave Morin calls Reddit one of the internet's most undermonetized assets
“When we went public, we were literally, if I remember right, we were like, this is one of the greatest under monetized internet assets.”
Dave Morin May 31, 2024 ▶ 25:43 #49: The Big Ass Calendar… and Other Things NOT to Google · More or Less Podcast
May 31, 2024 negative
Opinion
Britt Morin blames Google's AI Overview hallucinations on bad Reddit data
“I think Reddit is mostly to blame for this because there's so much content on Reddit. That's not valid. Google's clearly ingested this. And use the content to train its model. And like, that's, this is where a lot of these crazy answers are coming from.”
Brit Morin May 31, 2024 ▶ 4:35 #49: The Big Ass Calendar… and Other Things NOT to Google · More or Less Podcast
May 31, 2024 negative
Opinion
Sam Lessin argues most humans lack real knowledge and post for attention
“Most humans don't actually have much knowledge to share. They're just bullshitting, right, for attention.”
Sam Lessin May 31, 2024 ▶ 25:16 #49: The Big Ass Calendar… and Other Things NOT to Google · More or Less Podcast
Jun 14, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Khosla: Massive incumbent tech giants will dominate the large language model market
“Large LLMs will belong to the large players, players who can run on train on very large clusters, people who can pay for proprietary content, whether it's with Reddit or somebody else.”
Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 12:15 #51: Vinod Khosla on What to Build in AI · More or Less Podcast
Jul 31, 2026 positive
Opinion
Morin: X Is the Only Viable Platform for Tech Industry Conversations
“If you work in the tech business, if you're a technologist, it's where the conversation is. And so it's not on threads. It's not on Reddit. Like it's definitely not in Facebook group. Where else would you go? It's the only place that you can go. To have that c…”
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