Lol.
One reason for Karp and Tumblr’s silence? Last week Verizon completed its acquisition of Tumblr parent company Yahoo, kicking off the subsequent merger of Yahoo and AOL to create a new company called Oath.
In addition, at the all-hands meeting at Tumblr last month, all three sources say Khalaf gave a speech that shocked much of the staff. One source described the talk as “a whole bunch of terrible, shitty corporate speak,” in which Khalaf used military metaphors to explain how Tumblr could use content as “a weapon” to beat out its competition.
…Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”
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Khalaf is the CEO of Oath, the guy that David Karp reports to now.
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