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Reddit

Reddit is a social news aggregation, community discussion, and content rating platform organized into user-created topic communities called subreddits. It went public in March 2024 partly by monetizing its vast content corpus through AI data licensing deals with Google and others. The platform hosts hundreds of thousands of communities and is widely used as a source of organic discussion, though it has also been noted for bot-driven spam and astroturfing activity in comment sections.

Company Info

Founded
2005
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founders
Steve Huffman, Alexis Ohanian, Aaron Swartz
Employees
1,800-2,000
Website
https://www.reddit.com
Status
active

Funding

$1.3B+ (pre-IPO); IPO March 2024 on NYSE: RDDT total

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