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http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
An excellent Tumblr post breaking down that Vanity Fair interview: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
"Almost every line is something I want to print out, frame and then take a shit on"
but by golly if it isn't entertaining to read someone else do it.
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An excellent Tumblr post breaking down that Vanity Fair interview: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
I never caught the [case] thing. Amazing.
I know very little about David Karp. But after reading this, I'm a bit surprised that he decided to sell Tumblr. The way Marco talks about David's disinterest in money, and his singular obsession with Tumblr, made me think he wouldn't even consider selling it to someone else. I'd be curious to hear his reasons for selling, as oppose to doing a strategic investment like Facebook did with Microsoft at one point.
I believe they were running out of money and needed to do more work to bring revenues appropriately up. Yahoo allows them to not need to focus on revenues, as they already have a large and established an ad sales team.
Marco makes a lot of Steve Jobs comparisons in the write up, genuinely curious, did he work with Steve Jobs?
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I believe they were running out of money and needed to do more work to bring revenues appropriately up. Yahoo allows them to not need to focus on revenues, as they already have a large and established an ad sales team.
Seems like a free lunch though - isn't Yahoo buying them presumably because they foresee a way to monetize Tumblr, possibly in contradiction to David's desired direction of the product?
My bet/hope is that with more resources from Yahoo, David will pick and influence more parts of Yahoo than just Tumblr.
Curious: What does the day-and-night-iPhone reference mean? [Edit: Genuine thanks for the explanation everyone, but boy am I sorry I asked.]
“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.” It's an advanced Self-Important Internet Dude move. Best not imitated by amateurs.
It reminds me of the Facebook story where some of the early founders wanted to introduce advertising very early on.