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[1] Reddit is run by four developers, who are not out of touch, who can't make enough revenue despite their enormous size. [2] Management jobs =/= non-develope
by talbina 16y ago
[1] Reddit is run by four developers, who are not out of touch, who can't make enough revenue despite their enormous size.
[2] Management jobs =/= non-developer jobs.
[3] What do you mean knowledgeable about tech as possible? Code, trends, ideas...?
[4] How can an out of touch employee not pull their own weight in a desk job? Nick Denton, Heather Harde, Eric Hippeau..guess all of these "can't pull their own weight in a desk job"
- ant5 16y ago[1] Reddit is run by four developers, who are not out of touch, who can't make enough revenue despite their enormous size. Reddit is owned by Conde Nast. They don't have business people?
- talbina 16y ago" Whenever this topic comes up on the site, someone always posts a comment about how reddit is owned by Conde Nast, a billion-dollar corporation like Time Warner or Cobra, and how if they wanted to they could hire a thousand engineers and purchase a million dollars worth of heavy iron. But here's the thing: corporations aren't run like charities. They keep separate budgets for each business line, and usually allocate resources proportionate to revenue. And reddit's revenue isn't great. " http://blog.reddit.com/ http://blog.reddit.com/
- ant5 16y agoThat quote has absolutely nothing to do with anything we were just discussing. Reddit's revenue isn't great, and company's maintain distinct budgets for different properties, but exactly what does that actually have to do with Conde Nast having business people that should be paying attention to this?
- jey 16y agoYes, but that doesn't mean "non-developer" is sufficient to come up with working business models. You need to have and demonstrate some kind of useful and relevant skillset.