Reddit's cofounder said that at first the company felt like 'a homework assignment that got out of hand' rather than a business
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Reddit's cofounder Steve Huffman said in its early days he filled up most of the site with content using different accounts until it got more users.

Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    11 months ago

    It’s a bet that a stock will go down. If you’ve heard people say a hedge fund is “shorting” a stock it means they’re making a bet, a short put, that the stock they are shorting will go down in value in the near term.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
      391·
      11 months ago

      For pedantry, because everyone loves it, there’s actually a difference between a short sale and a put.

      A short sale is when you “borrow” the stock, and sell it at the current price, and then later you buy them back. Instead of “buy low sell high”, you “sell high buy low”.
      A put is when you buy the right to sell something at a given price at a given date.

      Both are ways of predicting that the price will go down, along with selling a call, which means you might be obligated to sell at a certain price later.

      Shorting gives you cash today, and then you pay interest on the borrowed stock.
      Buying a put costs a fixed amount today, and might be profitable later if the cost decreased.
      Selling a call yields a fixed amount of money today, and might cost money later.