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Didn't Reddit start as a remote company before laying off everyone that wouldn't move to SF?
by RandallBrown 6y ago
Didn't Reddit start as a remote company before laying off everyone that wouldn't move to SF?
- xeromal 6y agoI was thinking that same thing. They nuked a few great people a few years ago
- konjin 6y agoYes. They even had an open source client that you could contribute to and run your own copies of.
- RandallBrown 6y agoWe actually had an instance of Reddit that someone at my company hacked together an integration with our ActiveDirectory and we used it like an internal wiki and discussion board. It was better than anything else I've used.
- jahlove 6y agoThis was one of the previous CEO's initiatives (Yishan Wong) back in 2014. https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-forces-remote-workers-to-relocate-to-sf-or-get-fired/ https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-...
- cmdshiftf4 6y agoWhat Reddit started as, and what is has become, are two entirely different beasts in virtually every manner.
- purplecats 6y agotragic what they did to the real founder
- jedberg 6y agoReddit was never a remote company. We had a few remote employees at some point, and then in 2014 that was stopped, and now it looks like remote is back. But for at least the first five years, no one worked remotely (except the last two weeks of December, when we all worked remotely).