Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s former chief executive of Yahoo had promised that she will not screw this property up. But then she proceeded to do just that. And spectacularly at that! Yahoo had bought it for $1.1 bn in 2013. Today it was sold to WordPress.com parent company for $3 million! Many modest homes in Silicon Valley cost more.
At its apex, Tumblr had more users than both Instagram, now estimated to be worth close to $200 billion to parent Facebook , and Pinterest , which has a market cap of nearly $18 billion. In 2013, Tumblr sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. On Monday, the parent company of WordPress.com bought it for a pittance. (Source: Tumblr and the End of the Eyeballs-Are-Everything Era – WSJ)
One of the reasons for its decline was that once a community of open and free content was wrecked by Verizon when it removed the adult content. In just the last year, the traffic fell by 40%!
One fails to understand how such utterly incompetent CEOs can even be considered “leaders”? How can they keep making money despite being abject failures?!
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.
