REDDIT COFOUNDER ALEXIS OHANIAN VISIT

I want to set up this call with his associate Erik from Antique Jetpack -

please tell Susan who should be on the phone call to plan the meeting on

March 14th at our office with the Reddit cofounder.



Sorry for the delay, Meredith! I just got my schedule finalized with

speaking gigs/appearances/etc.

It looks like I'll be free after 1pm on Mar 14th. Is there a time that

afternoon that would work?

I'm CCing my associate, Erik, who does Antique Jetpack consulting with me.

I'm thinking you to could hop on a call to nail down just what we'd be

doing at this meeting and maximize what STRATFOR gets out of it :)

-alexis



Re: [Fwd: REDDIT COFOUNDER ALEXIS OHANIAN VISIT]

he is no longer with reddit even thogh he was a co-founder. i think he'll

pitch, but it will be more along the antique jetpack line of business.

Matthew Solomon wrote:

"maximize what STRATFOR gets out of it :)"

This guy is absolutely going to pitch something expensive. Question

being - should we plan to counter with some trade, partnership, etc type

of deal? Or a FREE suggestion.

In general, probably not worth it. In my opion Reddit is not near the

upper crust of the social sharing, RSS feed, user-generated links sites

and certainly not compatible with paid content. If you look at their

topics, it's actually quite lowbrow. We'd probably get better mileage

out of StumbleUpon or Digg, if it's something we're thinking about

pursuing. We did a test with StumbleUpon last spring (got a free coupon

at SXSW) and it performed adequately for Free Weekly distribution, if

memory serves.

Kinda

Re: Reddit co-founder

call in: 9459

On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Brian Genchur wrote:

can someone on this list please create a dial in number for those offsite

and send it around? i'll also use it to record the meeting and post for

those who can't attend.

On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Grant Perry wrote:

At one o'clock, a co-founder of Reddit, the social network site, will be

here to talk with George and anyone else who attends. George is

encouraging any staff that has an interest in or knowledge of social media

to sit in. The Reddit guy's name is Alexis Ohanian. He left Reddit

sometime ago and now has a marketing consultancy called Antique Jetpack,

whose services he presumably is trying to get us to buy. George says

we're not likely to buy but that it's worth talking with Alexis and trying

to learn something.

I'd like to see some of you there... it's in the VTC.

Grant Perry

Senior VP, Director of Editorial Operations

STRATFOR

221 W. 6th St., S

Re: Reddit co-founder

can someone on this list please create a dial in number for those offsite

and send it around? i'll also use it to record the meeting and post for

those who can't attend.

On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Grant Perry wrote:

At one o'clock, a co-founder of Reddit, the social network site, will be

here to talk with George and anyone else who attends. George is

encouraging any staff that has an interest in or knowledge of social media

to sit in. The Reddit guy's name is Alexis Ohanian. He left Reddit

sometime ago and now has a marketing consultancy called Antique Jetpack,

whose services he presumably is trying to get us to buy. George says

we're not likely to buy but that it's worth talking with Alexis and trying

to learn something.

I'd like to see some of you there... it's in the VTC.

Grant Perry

Senior VP, Director of Editorial Operations

STRATFOR

221 W. 6th St., Ste 400

Austin, TX 78733

+1.512.744.4323

grant.perry@stratfor.c

Re: Reddit co-founder

I see Brian sent out audio, which I'll listen to, but curious - what was

the post-meeting consensus in general?

On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Grant Perry wrote:

At one o'clock, a co-founder of Reddit, the social network site, will be

here to talk with George and anyone else who attends. George is

encouraging any staff that has an interest in or knowledge of social

media to sit in. The Reddit guy's name is Alexis Ohanian. He left

Reddit sometime ago and now has a marketing consultancy called Antique

Jetpack, whose services he presumably is trying to get us to buy.

George says we're not likely to buy but that it's worth talking with

Alexis and trying to learn something.

I'd like to see some of you there... it's in the VTC.

Grant Perry

Senior VP, Director of Editorial Operations

STRATFOR

221 W. 6th St., Ste 400

Austin, TX 78733

+1.512.744.4323

grant.perry@stratfor.com

