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Reddit is a social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website known for its user-created communities called subreddits.

We dig behind Reddit's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Company profile

SEC EDGAR ↗
Industry
Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation
Listed
NYSE: RDDT
Incorporated
DE
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Fiscal year end
Dec 31

Financials

FY2025
Revenue
$2.20B
Net income
$529.7M
Total assets
$3.24B

Latest full fiscal year from SEC filings (10-K) — SEC EDGAR ↗. Stratrix is a strategy publication, not a real-time financial data service.

The analyses

The Money Machine · Business Model
Reddit Cashed In the Moat Its Unpaid Moderators Built: $203M in AI Licensing
The 2023 API revolt looked like community versus capitalism. It was really a company collecting on a moat its unpaid moderators built — turning conversation into $203M of AI-licensing deals and its first profitable quarter, $29.9M, by Q3 2024.
8 min
The Culture Doctrine · People & Control
Reddit Has Two Owners Who Want Opposite Things. Its Whole Doctrine Is Pretending They Don't.
Reddit's culture doctrine says protecting volunteer-built communities is the moat. Then in June 2023 it tried to charge for the API and 8,800 subreddits went dark — exposing the contradiction at the company's core.
8 min
The Founder Doctrine · People & Control
Reddit's Cheapest Employees Are the Ones It Cannot Afford to Lose
In June 2023, more than 8,800 communities went dark and Reddit's site buckled. The blackout was led by roughly 60,000 unpaid moderators - whose entire labor was valued at a few million dollars against $804M in revenue. That's not a discount. It's a hostage situation.
7 min
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