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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IPO = Exit liquidity

Reddit sucks hairy balls

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IPO = Exit liquidity

This. It is so obvious that it literally causes me pain. Investors want their money back and their payout and the retail investors will be left holding the bag.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sooo.... Short reddit and make billions? I only know what I learned from stonks back in the hayday

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That would be the funniest end to Reddit. Going bankrupt because the superstonks people short their stock.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit. I'm tempted to check r/wallstreetbets lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yea, but then you have to go to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Meh. Popped in using stealth on Android. Not even a mention of the IPO. Just like everywhere on there, it's just gotten more lame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I think you'd have to do it the second shares start trading. Shares have to be available to borrow for shorting and there wouldn't be any for the public before trading starts.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Fuck reddit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago
[–] pastermil 13 points 6 months ago

This is gonna be fun...

[–] DudeImMacGyver 13 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They'll be disappointed by the valuation, that's for sure. Reddit is worth jack sh*t.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 6 months ago

Paywalled, so I'm not sure if this is answered in the article, but it seems odd they'd go with NYSE instead of NASDAQ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

buy follow the pump and sell right?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can't get any worse and might even get better if there's enough shareholders who understand how to run a business and can keep a stupid ceo in check.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

and might even get better

I honestly doubt it. I don't think it is possible for reddit to be profitable in anything like its current form.

Twitter, before the EM implosion, had managed one profitable year in the last decade.

Reddit has about 2 orders of magnitude less users than twitter.

Those users are much less attractive to advertisers because reddit knows fuck all about them compared to twitter.

Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Braindead take