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Welcome to another episode of Marketing School. I'm Eric Sue and I'm Neil Patel and today

we're going to talk about how Tumblr sold for 3 million bucks and here's what you need

to know as a marketer so just for some context Tumblr sold for a billion over billion 1.1 billion to yahoo back in 2013 yeah yeah so they were like and then yahoo

so a lot of the assets to aOL slash Verizon and then Tumblr now just got acquired supposedly for 3 million.

No one knows the exact price to automatic which owns WordPress.

So pretty much WordPress bought Tumblr for roughly 3 million and they took over 200 employees and my guess if the price was that low that means Tumblr is losing money and they're not making money. It's a cash bleeding business.

Yeah, and I think also not even just as a marketer, but even just kind of looking at it from a business perspective.

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