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Tumblr went from >1B valuation to ~3M right after it was announced. It wasn't the 8y of neglect that did it.


> Tumblr went from >1B valuation

Yahoo are not known for their savvy approach to acquisitions - they frequently paid well over the odds for the cachet of ownership until Verizon snapped them up.

> to ~3M right

But we don't know how much they were valued at when Verizon bought the Yahoo group in 2017. If they considered Tumblr only worth $3M then before they banned porn, then the porn ban has done nothing to the valuation. Anything else is just conjecture.




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