Reddit will double the ordinal of employees it has over the normality of this year to circa 1,400 numerical raising $250 million in a new melon round, the company has announced. Reddit currently has circa 700 employees globally. Over 600 are based in the US, according to CNBC, where it has offices in San Francisco, New York, LA, and Chicago.
The diggings of the new melon annular comes as the site's r/WallStreetBets subreddit gained boundless attention for its role in increasing the allotment prices of GameStop, AMC, and other companies. Redditors organized to revenue shares in irrevocable companies en-masse, turbocharging their stock prices at the figure of short-selling outwork funds. As of last year-end the Securities and Marketplace line-up is reportedly investigating whether misinformation unmask on social media could hypothesize widowed securities laws.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells The Bank Artery Journal that the disciples isn't planning on "materially changing" its strategy as a aftereffect of the melon round. The disciples says it proceedings to use the money to invest in video, advertising, customer products, and international expansion. On Sunday, Reddit said that it spent its errorless marketing bulletin on a single 5-second Super Ceramic ad jubilant its role in the GameStop stocks saga. Last year Reddit caused Dubsmash, a "short-form video social platform" whose video macrocosm tools it proceedings to lend into its own platform.
Reddit's appraisal drooping to $6 billion as a aftereffect of the new funding, according to the WSJ. Last quarter, the company's dyed diggings revenue was up 90 percent compared to the aforementioned period a year earlier, Reddit says.
As of December, Reddit boasted 52 million daily zoetic users, For comparison, Facebook has circa 1.85 billion daily users, Snapchat's parent disciples Breeze has 265 million daily zoetic users, and Cheep recent said it averages 187 million.
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