As a queer, Asian child of immigrants, Jen Wong spent a long time trying not to be different. Now, she says her difference is her strength
’s A100 list, which honours the most influential Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders every year.Here, Wong chats with the Globe Women’s Collective about what drew her to Reddit, how her background impacts her leadership style and her own personal evolution as a leader:Not at all. I majored in quantitative finance and I needed a proper job out of college that would cover my loans, so I got a job in that field. It was fine, but it was not really for me.
I think our mission – [bringing] community, belonging and empowerment everywhere in the world – is energizing. It’s also rare to have such a large platform that has no business model. It was an open canvas to build a business. We also have one of the most diverse leadership teams – our executive team is gender balanced, and it’s a very ethnically diverse team. There’s more to be done, but I do think the best part about Reddit is that [our] diversity comes through in how we operate the company and how we reflect the values of the platform.Reddit is a very decentralized platform in the sense that it’s actually about 100,000 communities, and they each get to write specific rules that sit on top of our global rules.
The second thing is, Reddit isn’t like follower-driven platforms, where there’s more of a tendency to be performative or curate a point of view for the purpose of garnering more audience. On Reddit, it just doesn’t work that way. You have to post into a community and everybody gets to vote up or down based on the idea. Nobody cares who you are, they only care about your idea – and it’s very hard to fool experts in a community on a topic.
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