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Reddit IPO

AJUMP23

Gold Member
l;dr – you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock at the same price as institutional investors when we IPO. Details about eligibility and next steps follow. This (long, dense) email has all the info we can provide due to legal restrictions.

As you may have heard, Reddit has taken steps toward becoming a publicly traded company with the initial public filing of our registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 22, 2024. Yes, it’s happening.

And because you have helped make Reddit what it is today, you now have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors.

We’re offering a Directed Share Program (“DSP”) that invites eligible users and moderators who have contributed to Reddit to participate in our initial public offering (“IPO”). (Including you!)

Program Requirements​

While being selected to pre-register is the first step, there are certain legal and regulatory requirements to participate in the DSP that are outside of Reddit’s control. Bear with us here…

To be eligible for the DSP, you must:
  • Be a current U.S. resident;
    • You will be asked to provide the DSP Administrator a valid social security or permanent resident number, along with other personal information. Reddit will not have access to this data.
    • Please note that U.S. residents using a VPN may face application limitations if the VPN locates them in certain non-U.S. jurisdictions.
  • Be at least 18 years old;
  • Provide your full legal name and an email address;
  • Not be a current or former Reddit employee (FTE).
When the DSP launches (a few weeks after pre-registration ends), individuals who have been confirmed for the program will be contacted by our external DSP Administrator. You will then be asked to provide additional information securely to the DSP Administrator to confirm your eligibility.


I was invited to participate in seeing if I will get to participate in the IPO. I would like to buy a few hundred shares and hopefully ride a nice profit wave.

Anyone else have an invite to the IPO and what are your thoughts on the success or failure. I may also short it, because that is what they think WSB will be doing.
 

Mortisfacio

Member
I have no intention of touching this. I don't view Reddit as profitable and has a history of those issues, which is why Reddit has pushed so hard (to users dislike) to monetize. I can't invest because I don't see value in it. I'm not touching puts because I expect the short expectation to be so high the IV will be through the roof. I'm not about to get IV crushed.
 

Dynasty8

Member
I was invited to participate in seeing if I will get to participate in the IPO. I would like to buy a few hundred shares and hopefully ride a nice profit wave.

Anyone else have an invite to the IPO and what are your thoughts on the success or failure. I may also short it, because that is what they think WSB will be doing.

Heavily considering it. Wanted to also buy a few hundred. Just out if curiousity OP, how do you get invites to new IPO's?
 

Gp1

Member
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As someone said, somewhat high profile, high visibility, with a problem to monetize. Probably is going to come down hard after the initial "hype".
 
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DrFigs

Member
yeah this seems like a disaster. i wouldn't touch it personally. my sense is that reddit relies too much on porn and copyright material to ever really grow in value.
 

Grildon Tundy

Gold Member
I think it's going to be volatile at first as the WallStreetBets/Stonks folks try and fudge with it. Then it'll level off a bit. Then steadily decline as Reddit makes terrible changes to increase monetization, driving their userbase away.
 
Reddit will be one of the long term surviving social media platforms. I assume it will go like other IPOs - may pump at first with the hype and lack of shares available, will probably then tank in a few months or sooner as insiders/employees/venture capital start selling and making more shares available, and then after a year or two staying flat at a baseline price it will start going up again. It's definitely a company I want to be invested in.
 

Tams

Member
What's the criteria for being offered this? Karma?

Anyway, as I'm not a US citizen, I can't participate.
 
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Celcius

°Temp. member
What's the criteria for being offered this? Karma?

Anyway, as I'm not a US citizen, I can't participate.
Believe it or not I remember Spez (the ceo) mentioning that having high karma was a factor in being able to participate in that LOL
 

Pejo

Member
The only relevant anecdote I have about this was a post I saw a few years ago that broke down all social media sites, and Reddit by FAR had the least 'valuable' users. I forget what the metrics were, something like marketability for ads, data harvesting opportunities, etc. Not sure if that changed since then, but I got a laugh out of it at least.

I personally would never invest money into reddit, but it's moreso a distaste for the way the site is run than anything financially related. I (wrongly) thought it'd go the way of Digg a few times already, and yet it still lingers around like a rotten fart.
 

Porcile

Member
"What's a cheap stock that is going to make me millions"

"What incredibly minor thing is actually mind-blowing?"

"What's [a thing] that will change your life?"

"What's [a thing] but is actually [a thing] ?"

Repeat ad nauseum.

This is their product. Why would anyone invest in this shit?
 

Atrus

Gold Member
I also got an invite.

Unstable, Terrible UI and app, lacking in features, bots galore, and hosts content that will get it sued when it makes money for people to go after.

Maybe there’s money in selling it to a greater idiot or buying a post-ipo low and hoping Meta wants to buy this train wreck but it sure isn’t for me.
 

Sonik

Member
It use to be very useful for finding help and information. I just wonder if it will still get big money for being tech.


Most of the "help" is usually from 90IQ dumbfuck redditors who reply with "why would you want to do that?" or "I never had that problem". Forums continue to be the best for advice, if there's a decently populated hobby forum for your question always look there, google of course is deranking forums so you need to find them first
 

Nobody_Important

“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
My risky business fund is tapped out for now.


I took a chance on Rivian when it cratered to $10 a share. Was thinking it would climb back to at least $20 for some easy cash, buts been a lot slower than I thought.
 

Sushi_Combo

Member
Once they gutted API access to third party apps, I kinda just stopped visiting. Apollo was such a wonderful app without having to navigate through the garbage stock app.
 

DGrayson

Mod Team and Bat Team
Staff Member
Once they gutted API access to third party apps, I kinda just stopped visiting. Apollo was such a wonderful app without having to navigate through the garbage stock app.

Same here. I still check it through a browser to try to find info on certain topics but I never view from my phone because their regular app is terrible and all third party apps are paid access now.
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
Reddit's product is data about its users. The app/website is the tool they use to convince people to give their data away.
The mods of the subs also can and do collect checks from companies to suppress posts or comments they don't like or by promoting products and posts that support products. It's less of an issue on the extremely small subreddits, but there is financial incentive for the power users posting on small subs too.


They harassed some random dude to suicide by accusing him of being the Boston marathon bomber.


If you want to see more depravity look into violentacrez.

The rabbit hole continues for those curious. Reddit is and always been a shithole.
 
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Spyxos

Gold Member
Videos almost never work. And Reddit itself is very unstable. Is the number of users on Reddit growing at all? I have the feeling that most bots are there.
 

ReBurn

Gold Member
The mods of the subs also can and do collect checks from companies to suppress posts or comments they don't like or by promoting products and posts that support products. It's less of an issue on the extremely small subreddits, but there is financial incentive for the power users posting on small subs too.


They harassed some random dude to suicide by accusing him of being the Boston marathon bomber.


If you want to see more depravity look into violentacrez.

The rabbit hole continues for those curious. Reddit is and always been a shithole.

Oh I know all too well. I used to write Reddit bots and external mod tools so that some of the most prolific power mods could make it look like they were spending inhuman amounts of time moderating subreddits when they were doing fuck all. I had bots streaming posts and flagged comments to private discord channels for mods to get notifications and they could react in discord to take action on the Reddit comments. Some of the big reddit mods would add kids to those channels and have them doing the moderation in exchange for a different color username in discord.

I participated in the Slack they sat in all day where they made jokes about how poorly they treated people in their subreddits. They coordinated a lot of moderation across thousands of larger subreddits there. I used it as a place to get feedback on the bots they paid me to build for them. They would openly talk about getting paid in cash or merchandise to let companies manipulate their subreddits. They felt it was fair because they deserved compensation for the time they spent moderating and reddit admin didn't care as long as it didn't undercut their monetization efforts.

I ended up cutting everything I built off because I was tired of being in the middle of the ideological battleground. One of the top mods of BlackPeopleTwitter, a pasty white guy, accused me of being a nazi because I built a bot for a subreddit that tracked reddit mod malfeasance and the social justice mod clique deemed anyone who called them out racist nazis. We got in a fight in Slack and he went ballistic when I told him that he was the racist because between the two of us he was the only one who made people prove they were black before they could participate in a subreddit. He tried to dox me and smear me and i decided that it just wasn't worth it any more. I helped mods set up their bots on digital ocean servers they paid for and gave them the code they paid for and that was that.
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
Oh I know all too well. I used to write Reddit bots and external mod tools so that some of the most prolific power mods could make it look like they were spending inhuman amounts of time moderating subreddits when they were doing fuck all. I had bots streaming posts and flagged comments to private discord channels for mods to get notifications and they could react in discord to take action on the Reddit comments. Some of the big reddit mods would add kids to those channels and have them doing the moderation in exchange for a different color username in discord.

I participated in the Slack they sat in all day where they made jokes about how poorly they treated people in their subreddits. They coordinated a lot of moderation across thousands of larger subreddits there. I used it as a place to get feedback on the bots they paid me to build for them. They would openly talk about getting paid in cash or merchandise to let companies manipulate their subreddits. They felt it was fair because they deserved compensation for the time they spent moderating and reddit admin didn't care as long as it didn't undercut their monetization efforts.

I ended up cutting everything I built off because I was tired of being in the middle of the ideological battleground. One of the top mods of BlackPeopleTwitter, a pasty white guy, accused me of being a nazi because I built a bot for a subreddit that tracked reddit mod malfeasance and the social justice mod clique deemed anyone who called them out racist nazis. We got in a fight in Slack and he went ballistic when I told him that he was the racist because between the two of us he was the only one who made people prove they were black before they could participate in a subreddit. He tried to dox me and smear me and i decided that it just wasn't worth it any more. I helped mods set up their bots on digital ocean servers they paid for and gave them the code they paid for and that was that.
That's insane man. Thanks for sharing.
 

MrMephistoX

Member
I was invited to participate in seeing if I will get to participate in the IPO. I would like to buy a few hundred shares and hopefully ride a nice profit wave.

Anyone else have an invite to the IPO and what are your thoughts on the success or failure. I may also short it, because that is what they think WSB will be doing.
I got the invite too OP! Let us ride to the flames of hell together!! I've never gotten to participate in an IPO so I'm going to buy a few shares and see how it goes. Reddit is ironically my most visited site outside of Neogaf and Threads since Twitter has become unreadable.
 
All of WSB is getting ready to short after this IPO hits the market

Reddit such a flaming piece of shit, in terms of shit tier social media I rank Reddit lower than 4chan because at least on 4chan you can say anything you want whereas on Reddit you are only allowed to speak in Democrat talking points or you'll be downvoted into oblivion and banned

They sent those email invites out by karma count, no seriously. And they will let anybody with a Reddit account register for the IPO shares starting March 1st. It's extremely obvious this is an attempt for the founder/CEO to cash out and then fuck off to Bermuda while it crashes and burns


If you really hate your money and want to throw it away, be my guest though. I won't try to stop you
 
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Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
Same here. I still check it through a browser to try to find info on certain topics but I never view from my phone because their regular app is terrible and all third party apps are paid access now.

Sink it for Reddit.

It’s an extension for four browser, so you have to trust it. Mobile browsers accept extensions, even safari.
 
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Draugoth

Gold Member
The website is a money pit to anyone other than the CEO, if you think the API Protest was bad just wait until they get rid of old reddit. It's a terrible place to invest.

Reddit has the worst moderation of any website in the entire internet, the company has their entire website held hostage by their moderator community because they don't want to pay actual funcional human beings. The entire website can be effectively shutdown by the mods if the company does something they don't like
 
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Hudo

Member
Have you ever been on X? 99% of shit that gets posted there is reactionary armchair bullshit, mixed with feelings stated as absolute opinions, mixed with snowflake/radical woke "kill all CIS people" shit, mixed with corporate PR bullshit, mixed with falseflagging, mixed with accusations of rape/abuse and other shit that should belong in a police report or in court, mixed with armchair experts on almost every topic imaginable (which are in reality just basement dwellers who might have read a Wikipedia article once).

It's like a potpourri of bullshit. If Aliens ever see this, they'd have the perfect argument why it is better for the universe to just glass Earth. And I would totally understand. Reddit is the same just with more "sophisticated vocabulary" (at least most of the time). But Reddit has at least some dope NSFW/Porn subreddits. Twitter/X doesn't even have that (not that it has stopped some mentally ill to just post pornographic shit on there but that usually gets removed). So there's at least some fucking worth to Reddit.
 
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dottme

Member
They clearly done a lot of short term change to try to do this IPO. But most of their change will kill long term profits I think.
If you want to gamble, there might be something.
If you want to invest, run away.
 

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
This is gonna be a glorious trainwreck to watch from afar.
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I also got this invite, likely because I’m the owner of /r/gaming and a few other big ones. I might check it out.

Funny thing, reddit still technically owes me stock options from back when I worked there. I think, anyway.
 

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
I also got this invite, likely because I’m the owner of /r/gaming and a few other big ones. I might check it out.

Funny thing, reddit still technically owes me stock options from back when I worked there. I think, anyway.
I'm curious when you worked there, obviously don't post this online if you do not want. I think I joined back around 2008 or 2009 when it was much smaller. I really miss that era as it hit quite a niche for me.
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I'm curious when you worked there, obviously don't post this online if you do not want. I think I joined back around 2008 or 2009 when it was much smaller. I really miss that era as it hit quite a niche for me.
I think I started in late 2011 and worked there until 2014 iirc. Definitely was much smaller. When I first started working there, there were only like 11 employees or something lol.
 
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