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Internet Content Connoisseur
Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit.
Aug 27th
This was an email I sent to one of our sites, The Daily What:
Hi TDWers, I’m Ben Huh, and I run the Cheezburger Network (which includes The Daily What, if you were too Prop 19’d to notice). I have made this offer privately to a few people associated with Reddit, and I’ll say it publicly now:
I believe that Reddit is one of the best communities I have seen on the Internet. I also believe that Reddit would benefit from more resources and less corporate interference. We can offer all of the above. And we’d love to buy Reddit and all those pesky troublesome users that we love so much.
Condé, we’ll be waiting for a call.
Cheers,
Ben Huh.
The Paranoid Mind of A CEO
Jun 30th
Here’s a list of thoughts that haunt me. From talking to dozens of founders and CEOs, I know that this isn’t uncommon. Some of these thoughts are totally irrational. Some of them, totally sound. Most of them add very little value to my work.
- Being blind-sided by a competitive threat, whether it’s an actual competitor, or market change.
- Having a competitor out-execute us.
- Market change that will dry up revenues quicker than we can change our model.
- Hitting an invisible ceiling on growth, where our method just stops having any impact.
- Missing the signs of employee apathy
- Saying something really stupid in public
- Taking our community granted (by myself or by the team)
- Not planning or testing enough for a change.
- Planning for too long and taking too long to change.
- Being stuck in a paradox of contradictions
Well, that’s not the full list. But I didn’t want to put you to sleep — which I probably need.