Jen Wong

Jen Wong Is Helping Reddit Reach Record Success

In March 2024, Reddit became the first major social media company to go public since 2019. Helping steer the company to a successful $748 million IPO? COO Jen Wong. In fact, the 20-year-old company has now become annually profitable since going public, thanks in large part to Wong’s efforts to scale its global advertising into a billion-dollar business. (When she became COO in 2018, the company’s yearly ad revenue was less than $100 million.) Wong also cut lucrative data licensing deals with both Google and OpenAI to let the tech giants train their AI models using the platform’s posts. A vocal advocate for empathy and inclusivity in the workplace, Wong is the executive sponsor for the Trans@Reddit employee resource group, a role she says she took on because, despite being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, she didn’t have as much cultural fluency with the trans community as she wanted.

By Audrey Goodson Kingo