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Didn't Reddit start as a remote company before laying off everyone that wouldn't move to SF?


This was one of the previous CEO's initiatives (Yishan Wong) back in 2014.

https://venturebeat.com/2014/10/01/after-raising-50m-reddit-...


What Reddit started as, and what is has become, are two entirely different beasts in virtually every manner.


tragic what they did to the real founder


Yes. They even had an open source client that you could contribute to and run your own copies of.


We actually had an instance of Reddit that someone at my company hacked together an integration with our ActiveDirectory and we used it like an internal wiki and discussion board. It was better than anything else I've used.


Reddit was never a remote company. We had a few remote employees at some point, and then in 2014 that was stopped, and now it looks like remote is back. But for at least the first five years, no one worked remotely (except the last two weeks of December, when we all worked remotely).


I was thinking that same thing. They nuked a few great people a few years ago




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