{"id":186189,"date":"2024-03-28T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-his-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-from-unpaid-moderators"},"modified":"2024-03-28T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:22:50","slug":"reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-his-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-from-unpaid-moderators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-his-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-from-unpaid-moderators","title":{"rendered":"Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defends his $193 million compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-his-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-from-unpaid-moderators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Huffman has defended his pay packet in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RDDT\/comments\/1bhr6uv\/amalmosta_answers_but_make_it_video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Q&amp;A video<\/a> on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I\u2019m glad this question was asked because there\u2019s been a lot of commentary on this topic,\u201d he began, adding that his compensation\u2014which is made up of salary and stock\u2014is set by Reddit\u2019s board depending on his performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the company does well, I will do well,\u201d the CEO added. \u201cIf the company does not do well, I don\u2019t either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Huffman has defended his pay packet in a Q&amp;A video on the platform. \u201cLook, I\u2019m glad this question was asked because there\u2019s been a lot of commentary on this topic,\u201d he began, adding that his compensation\u2014which is made up of salary and stock\u2014is set by Reddit\u2019s board depending on his performance. \u201cIf the company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}