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A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)
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A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 166 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And while Huffman now thinks that Reddit as a corpus of training data for AI is valuable, he let his board member Sam Altman siphon off Reddit data for free; Altman was, and still is, the CEO of OpenAI. Altman’s also Reddit’s third-largest shareholder and owns more than twice as many shares as Huffman. Altman was the CEO of Reddit for eight days.

Say what now

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huffman also made $193 million bucks, according to the article.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

How much is a dollar buck in USD?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 18 points 9 months ago

It's equivalent to four quarter dollar bucks.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

About 1/10 of a banana

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

1 Buckaroo

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 7 points 9 months ago

It's just shy of a bison dollar

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

About a hundred Stanley Nickels.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Same as a bill.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

Holy crap I did not know that! This is huge

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago

Altman was the head of Y-Combinator, Reddit is a Y-Combinator project.