Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway | CNN Business
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The article in the reddit post you shared is misleading. According to the S1 filed with the SEC, spez’s current base pay is $450,000; in 2023 he got roughly $792,000 in performance-based bonuses. The rest of that 193 million is options.

And with any luck those options will be worth fuck all after the IPO flops

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How did he get performance based bonuses when his company isn’t profitable?

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Apparently that wasn’t one of his MBOs, so we can infer the board is a bunch of dumbasses.

Base pay is a meaningless figure in tech. Total comp is all that matters. The true high rollers intentionally keep their base pay low to dodge taxes. This doesn’t mean they aren’t still getting and using this money, it’s just an intentional straw man to allow them to make this exact argument.

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