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Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

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[–] dhork 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Now this is one part where I believe them. Public companies have strict controls on their investor relations. I can believe that they are going out of their way to keep their investor info separate from their user info. They will probably get fined by the SEC if they don't.

That doesn't make it a good investment, of course. I don't want to be King Steven's exit liquidity.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I think they just want memestock-like bag holders, people invested in reddit "as a company/platform" who are unlikely to sell

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

With Spez at the helm I'd be surprised if they didn't wind up getting in trouble either way, guess time will tell.