Reddit's cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.

Reddit’s cofounder said that at first the company felt like ‘a homework assignment that got out of hand’ rather than a business::Reddit’s cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1684·
    9 months ago

    Not everything has to be a buisness.

    This is the part that Silicon Valley doesn’t get. We can, do, and need good things that don’t make money.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      9 months ago

      This was my biggest wtf.

      Companies like reddit used to love that shit - make something awesome to get a massive audience… And THEN monetize. So what the hell is he talking about “business”?

    • Princeali311@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      It isn’t even that it doesn’t need to make money. It’s that it doesn’t need to keep making more money than it did last year. It’s okay to have “stagnant” growth. It’s okay to just keep doing well rather than keep increasing profits.