So, what I find more interesting in this is that Reddit did bring in a "new" general manager.<p>What worries me is that it's not actually someone new. Neither is Alexis, for that matter.<p>From the outside looking in it would appear that while Reddit has been great at building a community, ramping up page views and engagement ... they suck at making money. (And this has limited their ability to hire and has spread the existing team very thinly.) From from what I can tell, they've always sucked at making money. So by promoting their community manager and bringing back the original CEO as an advisor, it would seem that this would enhance the parts that they're already really good at, but will they be willing to stir things up enough to bump up the revenues (even if it pisses the community off some)? In an armchair-quarterbacking sort of way, I'd hoped they'd bring in someone that was more of an outsider.
Good for him. Alexis is a genuinely nice guy. When I launched The Startup Foundry, Alexis emailed me two days after I launched (when I still didnt have much traction) and offered his support. I've had the privilege to interview him in a couple different occasions since then and he's always been incredibly kind.<p>He's a real standup guy.
This is awesome. From the things I've seen Alexis do, he seems like a genuinely cool person, and it really makes me happy seeing people like him succeed at things (advisor to Conde Nast seems like a pretty serious position).<p>Congrats, man.
Time to update the Alexis Tracker 3000:<p><pre><code> - YC ambassador to the East
- hip hipmunk
- returning to reddit as advisor/doodler
- (moving back to SF full-time? part-time?)
- advising conde nast
- publishing books/magnets/sauce/posters/shirts for charity
- talking talks
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