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Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And Huffman’s programming skills weren’t even that great because they quickly brought in Aaron Schwartz to make it all work, yet they always conveniently leave him off of the founders’ list.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is literally the story of almost every successful tech venture. Even in the company I work for, the CEO was a former salesperson while the dev who started it all was still a dev after 20 years. He singlehandedly created the entire product catalog but no one outside of the company knows his name. The CEO's name is all over everything, including a "book" he "wrote".

There's always a low profile nerd somewhere in the background who is absolutely key to the whole operation but they rarely get cred.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man I wish you were wrong but I have seen this exact thing 95% of the times I had a look behind closed doors of companies.

And even more dumb: this nerd usually gets undervalued, and as soon as they leave, it takes about half a year for ppl to realize how fucked they are and frantic recruitment noises to fill the offices in the hopes to pick up the pieces.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is a certain satisfaction in leaving a job and then hearing they had to hire three new people to do what you did.

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Huffman was fucking pissed about how good Alien Blue and Apollo were. He bought and absolutely fucking ruined AB and when he couldn’t buy Apollo (he tried) he crushed it under his boot heel.