Condé Nast, I’m publicly offering to buy Reddit.
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.
Posted on August 27, 2010, in Business, ICHC. Bookmark the permalink. 18 Comments.
You remain the king of the Internets.
YOU BUY!
You didn’t leave a phone number.
Victor Kiam liked Remington so much he bought the company, and all I got was ingrown hairs on my testicles. What are your plans for my balls?
Does the hat help make the offer better? I have to agree, reddit is cool!
Neil
“And then?”
Hell yes. But can I ask what you would want to change if this actually happened?
Ben, when you’re done with that would you like to buy my website? I’ll trade it for a Salami Hoagie—straight-up.
Ben,
Please make this happen. The Conde Nast corporate masters are trying to ruin a great Internet property. Clearly you see value in the name & members. THAT is the kind of vision that Conde Nast execs are obviously lacking. I applaud your going public with this offer and sincerely hope that the powers that be at Conde Nast are willing to part with the thorn in their side that is Reddit!
Best of luck!
Hey bro change those cheeseburgers you collected for the website, it totally worth it man.
What changes would you make if you bought reddit just out of curiousity?
Ben,
If you do end up buying Reddit, can you please have someone have another go at the UI? The current one is nearly unusable on the web, and it’s pushed me to using Digg (the new one).
It wouldn’t take much – just some pixel taming and a few visual cues.
I can haz reddiz , pweaze
Lulz..when wilz the cheezburger go corporate!!?!?!
Although reddit is a very good site for articles and news, I still find it hard to gain votes from other users. And they became more strict, perhaps it is one way of filtering the spam from the real news.
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