Comment by PGDesign on 03/03/2021 at 19:39 UTC

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Do you mean that this is due to a recent round of funding? The original team pivoted to making reddit in order to get seed funding from yCombinator, so where vc funded from the start

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Comment by Boston_Jason at 03/03/2021 at 19:50 UTC*

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Do you mean that this is due to a recent round of funding?

Nope, the Series B round started the downfall of reddit. This all started with Alexis Ohanian fired Victoria and started to ban subreddits. Ellen Pao just let Alexis steamroll over her.

Edit: could be series A?