[upwardbound]

> manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises

This was a violation of Yishan’s fiduciary duty to Condé Nast. It’s illegal.

[aimazon]

You’re missing my point. I’m suggesting there was no con. The “manufacture[d] leadership crises” were not manufactured. Reddit was sold to Conde Nast, it struggled due to lack of investment, a plan was put forward to rescue it, Conde Nast consented to the plan. If Reddit was struggling due to underinvestment why would crises need to be manufactured? Everyone on Reddit back then recognised that it was a shit show due to underinvestment. Reddit continued to struggle for years after the “con” because it takes a long time to fix underlying issues, if the crises were manufactured, then a post-“con” reddit would have been wonderful and stable but it wasn’t.

Altman and co. benefit from reframing the history of reddit as a grand genius conspiracy.