Reddit

“If you think about a lot of, it's not just Snap, Instagram, Facebook, MySpace, they all started with the young female users. Pinterest, maybe older female users. I think Reddit's really the only big social media example that started with a primarily male audie…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“We never had more than 10 employees up until 20 11.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

“Yeah, it's either like make people angry, teach them something, or make them feel happy for you. I think those are the three things. And like, making people angry actually does the best, like by far. But you obviously face the backlash doing that.”

“If you have a broad ICP, I would say do things that we did, like post on LinkedIn, post on Reddit, do SEO content, like build up some buzz. But with a niche ICP, I think it's very difficult. It's like, you have to really find where the people that you're targe…”

“The first thousand signups that we got were from rage baiting posts on Reddit, where we were just like emphasizing that we didn't have any products and that we'd raised like a funding round.”

“Reddit, we had slowed down on a bit. We don't do as much now, mostly because I got banned from most of the subreddits for self-promotion”

“I basically, like, went on Reddit, and I had this idea to, like, pretend I got a date by using Eragon to create photos for my dating app. So I went out to slash r slash Tinder, and I was like, Hey guys, I used Aragon to, like, create these pictures of me, and,…”

“Google does actually look at these things. Like they don't actually just look at backlinks. They also look at mentions. And so Team Blind and, you know, Reddit, they actually have pretty high authority scores, like the highest, right? Because they've been arou…”

“What we did was we basically wrote a really nice blog and like some, Code structure and, like, some examples out there on GitHub. we put it out, and we said, like, hey, here's, like, some good ways you could improve tool call. And, like, it just hit the right…”

“So you have to do more comments and more engagement than the previous one. But like, if it's newer, a newer outranks older. And so Google wants you to show like the newest sentiment.”

“We'll do Reddit posts. We'll like essentially organically hack and guarantee the number one post on Google for, you know, X amount of keywords that you want, which is practically unheard of, I think.”

“Right now, if you search up any keyword that is, what is the best tool or how, how do you do this or anything like that? Right. It's currently the number one result.”

“And so then like in the first two weeks, it was like trending across all of GitHub top 10 repo across every language and Spotify and Oracle and Reddit and X and these like large companies were starting to deploy it and start the repo.”

“And I think if you were a brand in that same situation, you would really think about what are the offsite, like not, not on your own domain. What are all the pages that influence the chat GPT for those priority questions as well? So we do a full audit of that.…”

“To get it into a user base, to get into the decision-maker was a bit trickier. That would, those were not on Reddit, but to get into the early users of this was definitely very good on Reddit.”

“I think the most of our conversations early on was on Reddit. With, like, DMs on Reddit, with, in MAP engineering threads.”