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This was my response as well.

If anything, he should have someone else respond. The fact it irked the CEO enough to stop whatever important things he was doing to log in and craft a fairly long rebuttal is telling.

I know plenty of people in PR and most would look at this and say this situation was completely mishandled. The CEO's comments actually makes him look worse than the whining ex-employee.

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Huh? He is the CEO of the website. It's great that he takes these thing personally.

It's really not. It's business and this is potentially very bad for the business. Rather than an ex employees AMA being discussed the discussion has turned roundly onto the response of the CEO. Rather than talking about the $50 million in investment or what they plan to do with it everyone is busy talking about Yishan and his response to this thread, how he mishandled the relocation mandate to their employees and other things he's mishandled recently. Honestly if I were an investor in Reddit I'd be concerned about who's steering the ship.

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