9mo ago

Reddit Insiders Selling Days After IPO; Shares Fall

CEO Steve Huffman and others disclosed sales days after the IPO.

I haven't seen this posted yet. All of reddit's C-levels sold $41.245 million worth of stock in the first week of trading.

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Wait, they're leaving their users holding the bag? Who could have predicted this
- im not sure i feel bad for the users who bought into this obvious grift
  
  It's still up over 40% from the opening price. Anyone who bought into this got a nice payday.

Pump and dump. They sold all those shares to shareholders and they are going to answer to them now. They stopped listening to the users a long time ago. Enshittification is inevitable.
- It's already fairly enshittified. The discourse has really gone downhill over the past few years. Remember how good the AMAs used to be? Or the AskReddit threads that were full of interesting stories?
- They tried to pump up by selling to reddit users first. On a platform that literally has communities dedicated to fucking up stock prices.
  
  Unfortunately, they somewhat succeeded. Greedy little pigboy got his $16m dump, right after using the Reddit users to pump.

I don't remember names, but many users around here called this to the letter
- Anyone with half a brain would have expected this. Fuck u/Spez.

They’re getting the payday they promised themselves and they are doing it now because the share price will probably never be this high again.
If Spez was paid $93 million last year and all but $600k of it were shares, you can bet he still has plenty left.

How in heck is Truth Social worth more than twice Reddit
- Because the stock market is mostly based on mob thinking/human psychology rather than being based on reality.
  
  Not mostly, but people are buying Truth Social shares not because they think it's a sound financial decision, but because they support the company. It's meme stock logic.
- chat … is this actually real? fucking trump has more value?

So this is not normal for a company going public, or is it?
- It is not. This is deeply unethical.
  If a company takes its stock public, the shares sold generate cash which is held by the company selling them, and used to build the business. Nobody who bought them, including the insiders, is really forbidden from selling them (except insofar as insider trading laws apply), but if an insider sells shares this early it indicates a deep distrust by the seller of the underlying value of their own company. Doing so while letting outside investors spin is therefore unethical because it signals that the people who built the company are planning to abandon it and let the stock tank.
  See also: lock-up period, which is not required during an IPO (news to me!) but the absence of a lock-up period sure seems like a red flag someone should have noticed. Although, I suppose, many people did.
- This is normal when a company goes public and is overvalued. It's precisely what you expect the insiders to do.

I remember reading somebody saying they were going to buy it and put a sell order for when it hit 69. Just looked and too bad for them. It seems to have maxed out at 68 dollars.
- I’m seeing it hit 73.47 Tuesday morning
  
  You are correct, I looked at the month long view and I guess it was there for such a short time that it didn't register on the longer timeline.
- Maybe that's why that backed out at 68 they wanted the last laugh

i hope shares plunge to the ground so that people feel or have to switch to something new but kinda similar, like lemmy

Maybe we could all just start buying shares for no reason. At some point the community will get bored and the stock will tank
- This only works to fuck short sellers, not people who already have shares. If you buy shares right now, you're not only screwing yourself while the other bag-holders minimize their losses by selling, but keeping the stock overvalued until greedy little pigboy can dump the rest of his stocks.
- Lets do it again! I still have savings to lose...To the moon!

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