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Apollo’s dev would likely have never talked about the “buy me out thing” unless Reddits CEO had publicly implied he was trying to extort Reddit for money. Also
by juliusgeo 3y ago
Apollo’s dev would likely have never talked about the “buy me out thing” unless Reddits CEO had publicly implied he was trying to extort Reddit for money.
Also, I would love to see an in-depth explanation of exactly what “math tricks” he used. Not being sarcastic—I read his whole post and it seemed like he was very clear that his calculations were back of a napkin type.
- refulgentis 3y agoDid you know it’s $3/month/user? It was odd to me he didn’t share that bit, he stays focused on the gross sum, which distorts the argument IMHO: that fee is very reasonable
- andreareina 3y agoThe Apollo dev did say it was going to be $x per user, in the original post they did where they also mentioned the $20MM figure. I'll try to dig it up and edit with the link EDIT: - https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/ https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca... original post by the Apollo dev - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 hn discussion on the same
- juliusgeo 3y agoMy point was less so about whether or not the price was fair, but that it illustrates issues with Reddit's leadership. Whether or not the prices quoted during negotiations between Reddit and Apollo are fair is somewhat orthogonal to the issue of weaponizing those negotiations to score PR points.