Ask HN: Should Google Buy Reddit?
Prompted by people on twitter saying Google has become useless since the shutdown as you can’t search stuff like “Aeron chair review reddit”<p>Reddit wants to go public at around $15 billion. Fidelity has marked it down to around $11 billion. Assume fair value somewhere in that range.<p>More expensive than your average google acquisition but they get:<p>1. A guarantee that Reddit won’t run Reddit into the ground and&#x2F;or do away with the text based communities that power google<p>2. The ability to run google’s ad network on reddit, including reddit video. Google could surely get more profit from the content than reddit does<p>Is this insane? There’s probably also some leverage for Bard as we enter the AI era<p>Reddit was even run in a hands off way during the Conde Nast era. Google could emulate that