Tumblr - The Enterprise

Tumblr, The Enterprise

David Karp was the founder of Tumblr , and it has global ranking of 30 in the world.  According to Forbes, Karp's net worth exceeds $200 million, and Tumblr has been valued at $800 million.

Here is an interesting article of an interview with David from the Guardian

An this is an interview I enjoyed.

Since being bought by Yahoo last year, Tumblr has stopped increasing in traffic, which is bad news for the company. In May, the month the deal was announced, Tumblr reached an audience of 47.49 million users across desktop and mobile, according to SCOR +0.35%. Only once in the subsequent six months, in July, did its traffic exceed that level. That’s not to say traffic has fallen off, just plateaued abruptly. Forbes.com

Here's a graph of recent activity for the company: As reported by Jeff Bercovici from Forbes.com

How to explain this? The easiest theory would be that Tumblr, having become part of a faceless corporate colossus, has “lost its cool.” Certainly there was no shortage of predictions at the time of the sale that this would be the case, and no shortage of users vowing to take their business elsewhere. But history suggests mass defections of that sort are rare. (The promised post-Facebook Instagram exodus was all talk, for example.) When users flee in droves, it’s usually because of a change to the product, not the ownership.


There is also an Irish music blogger who I follow, here is his website with links to his Tumblr.

Here is also a link to my page, which I don't actively use much, but do follow a few good pages.