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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:43:43 JST Anil Dash

   From twelve years ago, talking to the deeply-missed David Carr about Reddit: “Condé gave it enough rope and left the people there to their own devices. I don’t know whether it was a brilliant strategy or accidental neglect, but the founders did not leave, the community stayed intact, and the site grew beyond anybody’s expectations.” https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/business/media/reddit-thrives-after-advance-publications-let-it-sink-or-swim.html

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 22:44:07 JST Anil Dash

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     Carr paid me the highest compliment of my career when I hurriedly emailed him as that story was going to print, asking whether it was clear enough that I had consulted for Condé Nast’s leadership, and whether that needed to be disclosed, and he said “Everybody knows what you’re about, they know you mean what you say.” I think about it a lot, and want to be worthy of the trust he had in me.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 23:33:51 JST Anil Dash

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     • Ethan Marcotte

     @beep @anildash that got me through some very very low points.

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 23:33:52 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     @anildash oh my goodness, anil

     i can think of no finer compliment, and from no finer source

     💜💜💜