<story><title>Reddit needs help</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zach</author><text>I have to say, this looks bad for the whole &quot;users first, revenue later&quot; mantra.  Now, admittedly, the founders got paid on the flip.  But there are users, and now it&apos;s later, so... where is the revenue?&lt;p&gt;I heard this moment described as the &quot;where is the land&quot; moment.  The crew has been sailing the ocean for a long time and they&apos;re running on slim hope.  They grumble, then complain, and finally they confront the captain and say, &quot;You promised us land.  Where is the land?!&quot;&lt;p&gt;This doesn&apos;t look like a good resolution to the &quot;where is the land&quot; moment.  Why decide to plead for cash?  It&apos;s the business model of last resort.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, this is definitely a cry for help.  Unfortunately, it&apos;s one that reminds me a lot of the drowning article.  I think this is Reddit grabbing its users and trying to climb on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brianpan</author><text>Where is the revenue? I think that blog post, 1700 upvotes, and 1400 comments is pretty good indication of the possible revenue.  Hint: it&apos;ll probably be more than the 3 readers of my blog will be ponying up this year.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_ends_meet_tldr_remember_that_joke_about/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/cnth8/making_...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit needs help</title><url>http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zach</author><text>I have to say, this looks bad for the whole &quot;users first, revenue later&quot; mantra.  Now, admittedly, the founders got paid on the flip.  But there are users, and now it&apos;s later, so... where is the revenue?&lt;p&gt;I heard this moment described as the &quot;where is the land&quot; moment.  The crew has been sailing the ocean for a long time and they&apos;re running on slim hope.  They grumble, then complain, and finally they confront the captain and say, &quot;You promised us land.  Where is the land?!&quot;&lt;p&gt;This doesn&apos;t look like a good resolution to the &quot;where is the land&quot; moment.  Why decide to plead for cash?  It&apos;s the business model of last resort.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, this is definitely a cry for help.  Unfortunately, it&apos;s one that reminds me a lot of the drowning article.  I think this is Reddit grabbing its users and trying to climb on top of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nostrademons</author><text>I think this is the &quot;revenue later&quot; part.</text></comment>