Twelve days right after getting acquired by Yahoo, the blogging platform loses its fifth employee. Is this the end?
Tiny much more than a week after Yahoo announced its $ 1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr, the inventive director is leaving the company.
“There&rsquos still a lot more I want to accomplish, and I&rsquom actually excited about this subsequent chapter,” Jacob Bijani wrote on his individual Tumblr account Friday. “For now, I&rsquom going to take some time off to digest the last couple of years. I have about a dozen diverse projects planned, so anticipate more from me soon.”
Bijani’s farewell and Yahoo’s controversial acquisition history have done tiny to alleviate fears about the fate of Tumblr’s founding group.
In 2011, Matt Linderman wrote a scathing critique of Yahoo’s playbook citing the talent firesale of Flickr, which it acquired in 2005, and Scrumptious, a web-organization tool that has because gathered dust.
Because joining as CEO last year, Mayer has acquired nearly a dozen firms like on the web video web site Dailymotion and Jybe, founded by former Yahoos.
To Mayer’s thoughts, she’s hired absolutely everyone she wanted.
“As I&rsquove stated just before, organizations are all about people,” she wrote in a press release. “I&rsquove lengthy held the view that in all items art and design and style, you can really feel the spirit and demeanor of those who produce them.”
