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by paxys 850 days ago
$5B is definitely a lot more realistic than the $15B valuation they were targeting in 2022, but IMO Reddit is still not a sustainable business as it stands today. So many investors have had their money tied up for over a decade will little to no growth and are going to be scrambling for an exit on IPO day. Revenues are barely growing, losses are increasing. I don't see a rosy future for this stock.
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Unlikely sustainable without innovations. A payday for stakeholders and then popular-brand bagholders magnet, possibly a buy-rumor-sell-before-quarterly-report playtoy. I wouldn't expect UX increase and the question is how long the enshittification-revenue balance will be kept steady.
They haven't innovated in years. The only real changes to reddit have been a cosmetic re-work and release of an app for mobile use.

Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.

It’s run incompetently just at the moment. You have a golden opportunity right now with the enshittification problem. How many people put Reddit after the KW in search? If it’s opened up maybe it’ll get better management.