R&D, in this case, is probably all of the IT and software support to keep one of the worlds largest websites and apps online 24/7.
For some reason I read d&d and clicked because I wanted to see how that was possible
For a company like Reddit, that’s just cost of employing developers. Almost everything developers work on is considered r&d so they can stuff that line item
Spending half income to fuck up your UI for the fourth time
Maybe they should have spent some of that money buying Apollo app or their devs.
It’s insane how amazing that app was vs the reddit one.
Damn, they should either invest more or stop investing at all
they should keep doing that, seems to work wonders for their stock price
Got in at under 40, how ya doin
Reddit gets a lot of hate but as an investment I think it’s intriguing. High revenue growth, lots of great answers to questions that Google and now AI heavily uses, users come back repeatedly and it accomplishes something the video platforms don’t quite address in terms of community interest rather than pure influencer interest (so it’s used along with those platforms instead of being cannibalized).
I’ve seen some data that shows it’s very successful at converting ads to sales too. With all the active human interaction I’d have to think they could integrate AI better.
That’s a hell of a gross profit % !
R&D is often treated like a catch-all category for operational debt in accounting. If you create a budget for a project and then that project goes over budget you can classify that excess cost as “R&D”. It makes the debt look less bad to investors. “We didn’t blow the budget, we were investing in development!” As a tech-based company, Reddit is very likely doing research and development, but who knows what all is also getting dumped into that designation.
PE 190. Schwab equity rating of F. It has done well since the initial offering if you held it from the beginning though.
their stock based compensation numbers were pretty out of hand on the last ER call
Just so when people complain why Reddit is US centric I can show them this.
But not on the half-dead abortion victim that is called the search function.
200 million dollars on R&D and the app is still dogshit
Then why is the Reddit app non-functional 80% of the time?
R&D includes a lot more than you think.
My wife speaks english as a second language and she once said, “there is a word that you often say about work that I have no idea what it means and I wonder if you will ever figure it out” … it turned out that word was “R&D”. 🙂
Cool, and somehow old Reddit had more features… makes you wonder what they’re even doing?
Am i crazy or do these numbers not add up right?
All for me to not use their official anything lmao
They’re clearly researching how to make their app suck harder every day, and they’re very successful at this.
I am honestly shocked that given the value Reddit data has in training AI that they wouldn’t be able to get revenues into the 10 figure range. I guess it makes sense that the data isn’t super “monetizable” but tech companies surprise me all the time when it comes to creative monetization.
40% on R&D so they can write it off their taxes
Given how dogshit the official app is, I find that hard to believe. What could they possibly be developing?
what R&D tho i haven’t noticed one change in this platform for years other that the NFT profile pictures
Those Snoo pull-down mobile refresh animations don’t come cheap.
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R&D, in this case, is probably all of the IT and software support to keep one of the worlds largest websites and apps online 24/7.
For some reason I read d&d and clicked because I wanted to see how that was possible
For a company like Reddit, that’s just cost of employing developers. Almost everything developers work on is considered r&d so they can stuff that line item
Spending half income to fuck up your UI for the fourth time
Maybe they should have spent some of that money buying Apollo app or their devs.
It’s insane how amazing that app was vs the reddit one.
Damn, they should either invest more or stop investing at all
they should keep doing that, seems to work wonders for their stock price
Got in at under 40, how ya doin
Reddit gets a lot of hate but as an investment I think it’s intriguing. High revenue growth, lots of great answers to questions that Google and now AI heavily uses, users come back repeatedly and it accomplishes something the video platforms don’t quite address in terms of community interest rather than pure influencer interest (so it’s used along with those platforms instead of being cannibalized).
I’ve seen some data that shows it’s very successful at converting ads to sales too. With all the active human interaction I’d have to think they could integrate AI better.
That’s a hell of a gross profit % !
R&D is often treated like a catch-all category for operational debt in accounting. If you create a budget for a project and then that project goes over budget you can classify that excess cost as “R&D”. It makes the debt look less bad to investors. “We didn’t blow the budget, we were investing in development!” As a tech-based company, Reddit is very likely doing research and development, but who knows what all is also getting dumped into that designation.
PE 190. Schwab equity rating of F. It has done well since the initial offering if you held it from the beginning though.
their stock based compensation numbers were pretty out of hand on the last ER call
Just so when people complain why Reddit is US centric I can show them this.
But not on the half-dead abortion victim that is called the search function.
200 million dollars on R&D and the app is still dogshit
Then why is the Reddit app non-functional 80% of the time?
R&D includes a lot more than you think.
My wife speaks english as a second language and she once said, “there is a word that you often say about work that I have no idea what it means and I wonder if you will ever figure it out” … it turned out that word was “R&D”. 🙂
Cool, and somehow old Reddit had more features… makes you wonder what they’re even doing?
Am i crazy or do these numbers not add up right?
All for me to not use their official anything lmao
They’re clearly researching how to make their app suck harder every day, and they’re very successful at this.
I am honestly shocked that given the value Reddit data has in training AI that they wouldn’t be able to get revenues into the 10 figure range. I guess it makes sense that the data isn’t super “monetizable” but tech companies surprise me all the time when it comes to creative monetization.
40% on R&D so they can write it off their taxes
Given how dogshit the official app is, I find that hard to believe. What could they possibly be developing?
what R&D tho i haven’t noticed one change in this platform for years other that the NFT profile pictures
Those Snoo pull-down mobile refresh animations don’t come cheap.
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