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jsjohnst
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Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
> 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.
ClumsyPilot
on Aug 13, 2019
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Arguably, it happened throug gross miss-management. Can you think of one good decision they made?
jsjohnst
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Who is they in this case? Tumblr leadership, Yahoo! leadership, Oath leadership, or Verizon leadership?
Mistletoe
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Yes.
jsjohnst
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I can think of a few good decisions the former half of that list made. Later half, not so much.
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Arguably, that happened June 20th, 2013, the day the Tumblr acquisition was closed.