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Appollo main dev said he wanted 10M to “keep the app quiet”. I wouldn’t want to negotiate after that as well.

• Sunspark 3y ago
  He was making a joke. If Reddit took a stressed joke attempting to defuse the situation a bit as a threat, it really makes the statement that their management or outreach team really does consist of mentally slow people who should experience a Musk-style firing. Some people make jokes when they are stressed or anxious.
  • hartator 3y ago
    Maybe or maybe not and he was dead serious. In both cases, when you are making threats, it’s reasonable for the other side to walk away.
    • azemetre 3y ago
      What threat is there? Reddit had, and still has, all the power dynamics in these conversations. It's their product, Christian can't really coerce them to do anything whereas Reddit can and is.
• hbn 3y ago
  He was referring to working with reddit to optimize the API requests so it's less stress on the servers. I'm not sure where this thing about it being a "joke" came from. Reddit accused him of making too many requests (even though he was insanely below the threshold they themselves allotted), and he said he was willing to fit within whatever they wanted as a new threshold, or "keep the app quiet"