| 00:00 - 00:03 | Redditors are unhappy with the direction of the site. |
| 00:04 - 00:05 | They've been fleeing to |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | Voat, Aether, and Snapzu. |
| 00:08 - 00:12 | They say the new rules are vague and arbitrarily enforced. |
| 00:12 - 00:15 | And they don't like the stagnant feature set. |
| 00:17 - 00:19 | I'll talk to them. |
| 00:19 - 00:21 | Just implement the new features we promised. |
| 00:24 - 00:26 | Herr Spez |
| 00:27 - 00:28 | You see... |
| 00:31 - 00:33 | Pao fired everyone who knows how the site works. |
| 00:34 - 00:36 | We can't develop our only product. |
| 00:53 - 00:58 | Everyone but the "world-class executives" Pao hired, get out. |
| 01:13 - 01:15 | What the hell were you thinking!?! |
| 01:15 - 01:17 | All the planning in the world |
| 01:18 - 01:23 | Is useless if we can't execute! |
| 01:25 - 01:28 | Whose bright idea was it |
| 01:29 - 01:31 | To fire the telecommuters? |
| 01:31 - 01:34 | They built this site from nothing. |
| 01:34 - 01:37 | They knew the community |
| 01:37 - 01:40 | and shared their values |
| 01:40 - 01:42 | Herr Spez, there was a glut of local labor. |
| 01:42 - 01:46 | Employees are not interchangeable! |
| 01:46 - 01:48 | They were experienced in link aggregators. |
| 01:48 - 01:52 | That's because they came from Digg! |
| 01:53 - 01:54 | Where is Digg now? |
| 01:56 - 01:57 | Why did we fire the people who |
| 01:57 - 02:00 | Made reddit successful and |
| 02:00 - 02:03 | Hire the people who made Digg fail!?! |
| 02:04 - 02:08 | Sure, most of the projects we've developed have been crap. |
| 02:08 - 02:13 | We've always announced bizarre things just to ignore them for a few months and drop them. |
| 02:14 - 02:16 | But at least we weren't Digg! |
| 02:17 - 02:21 | At least our dithering didn't result in a constant stream of negative features! |
| 02:27 - 02:29 | Then comes our second funding round. |
| 02:30 - 02:34 | Suddenly we need to sand down our rough edges |
| 02:34 - 02:36 | To satisfy the media's moral panic. |
| 02:41 - 02:42 | Suddenly we need to |
| 02:43 - 02:47 | Become accessible to fundamentalist hipsters. |
| 02:48 - 02:53 | So that we can one day "make money." |
| 02:54 - 02:56 | We were great once! |
| 02:56 - 02:59 | We even had our own cryptocurrency. |
| 03:00 - 03:02 | Part of an ingenious master plan. |
| 03:04 - 03:07 | It's okay. We all thought the cryptocurrency was stupid. |
| 03:14 - 03:16 | Pao's job was simple |
| 03:19 - 03:23 | Ram through some negative features, and take the heat on her way out. |
| 03:25 - 03:26 | And maybe... |
| 03:31 - 03:33 | Fix our mobile apps. |
| 03:40 - 03:46 | But you can't talk to users exclusively when you have |
| 03:46 - 03:49 | A negative feature to spin as a positive. |
| 03:53 - 03:56 | Don't try to trick the internet. |
