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There is very simple monetization strategy: ads, cut bloat, move content moderation staff to India!

Tumblr has an army of content creator that work for free. It is a site that host text and images. How they even spend 30 million per year? Maybe on organizing "stuff convention", SF real estate and so on... Cut the bloat!

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They don't spend 30 million per year, they spend 30 million over what they generate.

I don't think they'd generate peanuts so as to not even cover hardware costs.

> they spend 30 million over what they generate

That is my point. I do not understand how they total costs can be over 30M. It is mostly static content that begs for CDN cache. It is also not mission critical.

Probably they do a lot of content moderation, which takes human beings at least at some stage.

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