If he’d had any insight, he’d have realized Reddit’s structure wasn’t a good vehicle for monetization and gone the way of Wikipedia/Jimmy Wales. He’d be popular and respected now and probably able to extract a decent living from it.

But his insistence that a square peg be pounded into a round hole will end up with him being neither popular nor respected—and he’ll never sniff that moonshot IPO.

I was referring to Toyota’s strategy being cynical, not the comment.

It’s depressing how cynical that is.

Like how our 4 year old refers to the tv as the iPad on the wall.