At WordCamp Canada 2025, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called Tumblr his “biggest failure,” noting the challenge of maintaining the platform’s half-billion blogs while it remains unprofitable. Though plans to migrate Tumblr to WordPress infrastructure are on hold, Mullenweg said he hasn’t given up.
i’d say give tumblr back to david karp but i’m literally afraid he’s like into crypto now like wil wright (don’t tell me cause i don’t wanna find out because i dont wanna get sad 🙃)
i’d say give tumblr back to david karp but i’m literally afraid he’s like into crypto now like wil wright (don’t tell me cause i don’t wanna find out because i dont wanna get sad 🙃)
I checked for you and good news!
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He isn’t involved in much except investing in mobility aides and was apparently on the Planned Parenthood board for a while.
Quick search showed his most recent activity was being the single largest donor to Mark Kelly’s 2020 senate campaign.
Completely normal progressive liberal stuff.