Seems foolish to build your company to be entirely dependent on the generosity of free API access, then rage quit when you have to start paying instead of, you know, charging your customers more.
Also I see no evidence that he was accused of blackmail. A linked comment in the Reddit thread states:
>Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million.
The linked comment is from "BuckRowdy", apparently not even an employee of Reddit and that is not "blackmail". To me that's "hey, acquihire me and my company for 10 million and then you don't have to do the work!"
Also I see no evidence that he was accused of blackmail. A linked comment in the Reddit thread states:
>Apollo threatened us, said they’ll “make it easy” if Reddit gave them $10 million.
The linked comment is from "BuckRowdy", apparently not even an employee of Reddit and that is not "blackmail". To me that's "hey, acquihire me and my company for 10 million and then you don't have to do the work!"