Beyond spez (and the fact that he is a greedy little pig boy), I’m curious about the corporate dynamics that prevent a company like Reddit from being profitable. From an outside perspective, they make hundreds of millions per year via advertising, their product is a relatively simple (compared to industries that need a lot of capital to build their product), and their content is created and moderated for free by users. Could any offer some insights or educated guesses? Additionally, I’m curious how this all ties into the larger culture of Silicon Valley tech companies in the 2010s.
That’s pretty insightful. Kinda knew that businesses don’t want to post profits but never really knew their reasonings or the implications. Thank you for spelling it out.
Amazon are famous for this, they try and run AWS at a net loss of whatever profit Amazon Retail makes, because it’s easy to spend money quickly at the end of the year to avoid taxes on IP and contracts.