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Assertion Supported
Google's early Blogger help docs explicitly recommended users host photos on Flickr
“Google had bought Blogger which was one of the early blogging programs, and they didn't have a way to host photos, so they put, you know, in their help materials online When people said, how do I upload photos? They said, use Flickr.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 18:15 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Assertion Supported
Yahoo offered around $20 million to acquire Flickr in 2005
“It was around twenty million bucks.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 21:12 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
Assertion Supported
Mullenweg built a pre-Flickr photo website using open-source PHP script Gallery
“Well, I used some open source software called Gallery, and it was a PHP script that would allow pre-Flickr, pre-Facebook, pre-anything to post photos and have galleries online.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 8:42 WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
Assertion Partly supported
Flickr had just nine employees when acquired by 11,000-person Yahoo
“Well, at the time we were required, it was nine people. So Nine people being acquired by what at the time I think was like an 11 or 12,000 person company.”
Stewart Butterfield Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 24:01 Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
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