timmcfarlane:

digitalfaun:

SOURCE: Forbes.com

This is all kinds of scary. Yahoo are obsessed with acquisitions of sites that execute services better as a way of getting you to use their product. The death sentence that was handed to Flickr through Yahoo’s integration is a prime example of how fast things can go a-wry in a simple business move. 

It’s hard to fault David Karp if that number is really true though. A guy that never finished high school to making a billion dollar business deal is difficult to root against but I do hope that he holds up to his word when he discussed the possibility of a buyout in Forbes’ December issue as mentioned in the above source article.

He didn’t want to get “absorbed into a behemoth of another company and raided for talent and traffic.” But he also mentioned being open to “acquisitions that leave the company alone….There are a lot of paths for us.”

Yahoo’s integration strategy is rarely a case of attempting to get their current audience to use their new product, rather the reverse, ill-fated attempts at trying to push their current services on the existing users of a new acquisition. 

Not thrilled about this news, but it probably makes good business sense for Karp. I guess it’s just “wait and see” time…

David Karp’s spent as much time as anyone on this site helping to make it what it is. So before everyone freaks out that Tumblr will become another zombie site, let’s wait and see what actually happens. Give the guy the benefit of the doubt, speculation is for haters.