“Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that CEO Steve Hoffman sold 500,000 shares, and Reddit COO Jennifer Wong also disclosed that she sold 514,000 shares.”
Third bullet point. Nuff said.
This is normal and not a big deal at all. Essentially happens with most IPOs.
That is definitely part of it, but r/Wallstreetbets is also shorting the fuck out of the stock.
One of multiple threads- https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1bcfl86/reasons_to_short_the_reddit_ipo_make_big/
Oh I forgot about those guys. Juicy.
Tally ho lads
Hope it keeps plummeting.
This reminds me of the things preceding the 1929 stock market crash. I’m not a history expert and know very little about it, but I recall that just before it happened, many people who ordinarily did not care about the stock market or had to means to care about suddenly started speculating in the market. That may not have lead to the crash but possibly it was a symptom of whatever has fuckening. I think just looking at us all here talking about how reddit this and that blah blah, that’s a symptom of the impending market crash of the early 20’s. LOL it would be hilarious if it happened exactly in 2029.
Called it. Overvalued. The site has been is in dire need of investments to improve the platform. Give tools for the moderators to do their job properly (they’re already working for free), improve the page layout, fight bots in a more intelligent manner, find innovative ways to make the platform turn a profit instead of resorting to the most assholeish, intrusive and abusive ways ever. But instead the dipshit that runs that dumpster fire gave himself a huge undeserved paycheck with the money that should have been used to do that so when it inevitably comes crashing down he has made some reserves.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the traffic on that site is bots farming karma so they can spam some ads at that point and a significant portion of human accounts they have left are probably shadow banned by false bot detection. Every attempt they’ve made to make money out of the platform was so terribly thought through that it just unnecessarily resulted in a far worse experience for the userbase than it needed to, screwed over the people who work for free to keep running and was met with huge backlash every time. And they still can’t turn a profit.
That spezial mod of r/jailbait already cashed out his shares for something like 16 million so he got his… I doubt he cares what happens now.
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This was totally expected. Story of most tech IPO’s. It’ll continue to fall into the teens, maybe single digits and stay there for a long time.
Yep, Facebook dropped 50% after the IPO. If you bought at IPO and held on to the stock you now got 10x ROI. Of course FB makes a ridiculous amount of money from ads even at the IPO while Reddit is still struggling.
Super long term investment
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Let me show you this tiny violin 🎻
Now that is a tiny violin.
Looks like a tiny cello to me
It’s bigger than the emoji though.
That’s true. Violin science is complicated, man…
GOD I LOVE THIS.
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Ooh nooooooo… anyway.
“Earlier this week, Reddit disclosed in a corporate filing that CEO Steve Hoffman sold 500,000 shares, and Reddit COO Jennifer Wong also disclosed that she sold 514,000 shares.”
If they believed in the platform, they would hold. Yeah looks like they are looking for bag holders.
I don’t know how much of a bag holding exercise it is instead of a “treat yoself” moment. Half a million shares at $50/share is $25 mil, minus 50% taxes is $12.5 mil.
That isn’t that much money in the bay area. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a lot. But that’s just a $4 million house with another $1 million in furnishings, and I’m guessing a nice car or two. Take the other $6 mil and invest in a diverse portfolio. They’ve basically sold their stock so they can square away their personal lives.
I think it matters more what percent of their holdings they sell rather than the amount they sell.
The COO holds 1.4 million now, so she dumped 25% of her shares
To be fair (and you can probably see by my username I don’t like reddit anymore), I think it makes perfect sense to dispose of a fair portion of your shares in this situation. Firstly, these asshats get paid part of their salary in shares, it’s natural to want to get more security on part of your income. Secondly, with how hard the price rose in the first couple of days, it makes sense. But people are welcome to disagree, of course.
How does that respond to the original idea, that is:
if they believed in the company, they would hold their stock.
You are not a genius for selling your company’s stock after IPO, you are a grifter. Doesn’t matter how many voting shares they have, doesn’t matter how much more money they need - they do get paid in cash too, and they can borrow against the stock.
So they sold out. Fuck them both for that.
if they believed in the company, they would hold their stock.
The COO holds 1.4 million now, so she dumped 25% of her shares
Selling quarter of your stock AT THE FUCKING IPO is a shame. I can’t believe people are defending that.
And I suspect they can’t sell the rest as easily as the A shares.
I have nothing I’m willing to defend about Reddit management, I love the idea that they will end up penniless one day (though I’m sure that will not happen.)
I just don’t think selling off 25% of one’s shares (necessarily) means what has been suggested.
That’s SOP for tech companies.
The point would be to diversify assets. You don’t want to gamble everything on the hope the thing you believe in is successful. Not that I think they believe in the platform, but it is probably a smart idea to diversify no matter what. 25% of your shares does seem like a lot though.
They get paid in cash ffs.
You sell stock when you think it’s overvalued.
Or you sell stock when you need to rebalance. Fuck spez, but selling 25% at IPO seems sane and reasonable to me.
If they sold at $50 a share, they pocketed over $25M each. Even after taxes, that is more than enough to live comfortably in any region’s cost of living.
That’s not diversifying. That is greed.
Them not selling isn’t any more greedy. No matter what, they own the value of the stocks, whether they liquidate them or not. It’s fucked up that anyone gets paid that amount in general, but they did and it’s theirs. I don’t know what you people would want from them. Isn’t holding onto the shares hoping the value goes up even more greedy?
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No, she held almost 2m, sold 25% and has 1.4m in remaining stock.
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This is generally how IPOs work out. Same happened with ARM.
Yup. Nothing surprising.
Let me know when it becomes a penny stock…
It’s still at 50 dollars which is insane. Even 37 dollars is much more than it’s worth now, and future looks very bleak for it.
Probably depends on the deal they made for selling our data. Could be a gold mine for em. Here’s hoping for a big crash down to earth though.
They sold it to Google for 60 million. That’s a hilariously low price.
