I don't know how much I believe this.

One thing that successful people are often good at is taking their good luck and portraying it as a genius master-stroke of planning that no-one could have foreseen.

Claiming to have actually engineered the string of leadership crises that engulfed Reddit is a bit far-fetched, and I suspect just bragging and taking credit for something that just happened.

Did they ultimately benefit from those crises? Clearly, they were opportunistic.

But actually engineering that as some kind of master-plan comes across to me as an attempt to puff up their ego.

It comes across as sociopathic regardless of how much is fact or fiction.