@inthehands I don't know what reddit's CEO is actually on the hook for, so take this with a grain of salt. a lot of tech CEOs are on the line for DAU/MAU or some newfangled variation of that metric going up. Up=valuable company. Flat or down, not so much.
So the tactic here is to figure out what that metrics are, and organize to make as many of them go in the bad direction as fast as possible for as long as possible. and importantly, to maintain this longer than the investors have patience to wait it out, which could end up being a significant amount of time (many months? a year or more? they're waiting for an exit, which traditionally takes years)