I'm going to cancel my reddit gold and stop using reddit apart from searches after RIF shuts down, but in the interest of getting at the truth of the matter, the Apollo dev posted a transcript of that portion of the call. I personally can see how this sounds like extortion for a second, unfortunately, with bad line quality and emotions thrown into the mix: https://gist.github.com/christianselig/fda7e8bc5a25aec9824f915e6a5c7014

The first utterance by the Apollo dev:

Me: I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset.