A leaked inner memo from Matt Mullenweg to the employees at Tumblr outlined plans to shift workers out of Tumblr to different groups in Automattic and run Tumblr on with considerably diminished staffing.
Matt Mullenweg subsequently confirmed that the leak was real and provided a proof of what’s occurring with Tumblr.
Tumblr Not Incomes Sufficient
The underside line with Tumblr is that the turnaround they had been working towards by no means materialized and is subsequently not incomes on the ranges they’d deliberate to succeed in.
Tumblr was bought from Verizon for $3 million {dollars} in 2019. Verizon had acquired Tumblr from their acquisition of Yahoo, which had bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion {dollars} years earlier.
The value was proper however Automattic is claimed by Mullenweg to have spent $100 million {dollars} attempting to show Tumblr round.
However that by no means occurred.
What’s Occurring To Tumblr Staff
The leaked memo and subsequent tumblr submit by Mullenweg defined that 139 workers from the product facet of Tumblr can have the prospect to decide on different jobs at Automattic.
Staff within the Buyer Help and the Belief and Security groups can stay at Tumblr, there aren’t any plans to allow them to go.
Mullenweg’s assertion he made references to numerous groups at Tumblr by their inner names.
So it helps to grasp what the interior names for varied groups are:
- Bumblr is the interior identify for the staff on the product facet.
- Happiness is the interior identify for the customer support crew.
- T&S is a reference to the Belief and Security crew.
Mullenweg’s leaked announcement defined their plans:
“As we talked about previously, if it doesn’t work we’ll have a backup plan and arrange the enterprise so we don’t have to let anybody go, we’ll simply have to mirror and resolve the place else we must always focus our power collectively.
This plan is occurring now: nearly all of the 139 folks in Bumblr will change to different divisions.
No plans for any switches in Happiness or T&S.”
What’s Subsequent For Tumblr
No plans to close down Tumblr had been introduced. The plan at the moment is to create a plan for the way to function Tumblr with a diminished crew of workers.
Automattic continues to be centered on persevering with in 2024 to see what they’ll do by way of efficiency.
Learn Matt Mullenweg’s assertion concerning the leaked memo on Tumblr:
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