Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by jsjohnst on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:15PM (#20682209)

> To the tune of putting approx $1 billion through the corporate paper shredder.

Arguably, that happened June 20th, 2013, the day the Tumblr acquisition was closed.

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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:20AM (#20683748)

Arguably, it happened throug gross miss-management. Can you think of one good decision they made?

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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by jsjohnst on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:23AM (#20685068)

Who is they in this case? Tumblr leadership, Yahoo! leadership, Oath leadership, or Verizon leadership?

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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by JohnJamesRambo on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:45AM (#20685746)

Yes.

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Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic by jsjohnst on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:45AM (#20686320)

I can think of a few good decisions the former half of that list made. Later half, not so much.

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