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"Call me naive but I completely believe sama and yishan." I believe them as well, the big question for me (still) isn't why yishan left but why reddit needs to
by georgemcbay 12y ago
"Call me naive but I completely believe sama and yishan."
I believe them as well, the big question for me (still) isn't why yishan left but why reddit needs to be 100% in San Francisco -- not in the sense of SF vs Daly City, but the Bay Area (only) vs. having offices in SLC, New York, etc. I'm sure there are hand-wavy reasons for it like synergy-collaboration-focus-blahdeblah but nobody has yet convinced me that it wasn't just a poor decision (one that seems to clearly have had a large impact in this departure even if yishan and the board agreed on the Bay Area centralization).
- jsmthrowaway 12y agoMy bet is on YC culture via their presence on the board. My signal as evidence is the requirement that teams relocate to San Francisco as part of being funded. If I'm right -- and I'm not sure I am -- I would hope that's something that gradually changes over time. Twitter's choice to stay in the city was a big bummer for me, but I understand why it happened. Once Caltrain electrifies and gets a bit more optimized, though, I really want to see more of this industry spread out to the peninsula so we can have a bit of a breather. East bay too. There's an ember of startup love taking root in Oakland and it'd be awesome if YC would blow on it. San Francisco is complicated and this industry isn't helping as much as it could, is my point.
- debacle 12y agoThe least savory reason would be that it was a way to lay off a percentage of the staff without the bad PR that comes with layoffs.