• Dick Justice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He’s just emulating Elon because he wants to be a billionaire too. i dont think theres aany 4D chess going on.

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      1 year ago

      He might be LARPing as Musk, but why is the company playing along? Do they really think that Spez is going to make Reddit Inc. more valuable for the IPO?

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          1 year ago

          Chairmen are usually elected by the shareholders, with a weighted vote - if people holding more than 50% of the shares voted to replace spez, then spez would be out. In this case it means that either a lot of shareholders in Reddit agree with spez, or that the most powerful ones do it.

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              1 year ago

              IIRC the biggest shareholder is Conde Nast(y). They’re also behind Wired and Ars(e) Technica, that have been criticising Reddit’s decision, so I don’t think that they’re too happy with Spez.

              But yeah, it’s corpo-marketing all the way - from corpos, to corpos.