Rewind: Before David Karp Sold Tumblr to Yahoo

Yahoo got a much-needed dose of cool when it decided to acquire the blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion earlier this week. Long before Tumblr CEO David Karp said "fuck yeah" to Yahoo, he told Mediabistro in an interview about his plans for the startup, "I don't think we aim to sell anything."

This week, Yahoo got a much-needed dose of cool when the company announced its plans to acquire the blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. In 2008, long before Tumblr CEO David Karp said “fuck yeah” to Yahoo, he told Mediabistro  in an interview about his plans for the startup, “I don’t think we aim to sell anything.”

Read an excerpt from our 2008 “So What Do You Do?” interview with Karp below:

Describe the ideal situation for Tumblr, five years out: What will be its key features and how many users will you have registered? How many will be on staff?

In five years, I have absolutely no clue.

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