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6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Gilad Lotan · said 27 times in 5 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Everything said about Tumblr, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013
Disclosure
Lotan: Betaworks was an early investor in Tumblr and Kickstarter
“So we were one of the earliest investors in Tumblr and Kickstarter, and a whole bunch of, ah, companies across, ah, the tech scene in New York City.”
Gilad Lotan Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 0:56 Gilad Lotan, Betaworks // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013
Dec 5, 2013
Disclosure
Tumblr's email algorithm prioritized original content creators over rebloggers
“We want to give a little bit of bonus points to content creators, so if I post something and Hillary reblogs it from me, And these are both candidates to go into your email. Mine will show up instead of hers, because I came up with it.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:47 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Supported
Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013
“There's about a hundred and fifty million of them that we host now.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 5:43 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 5, 2013
Assertion Partly supported
Video, audio, and photos were Tumblr's most popular post types
“So on Tumblr you can post seven different types of content. Video, audio, photos are by far the most popular links, things like that.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 7:25 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 5, 2013 neutral
Disclosure
Tumblr recommended blogs using social graph and post content
“At Tumblr, we try to recommend blogs to people. We use things like the Social Graph. Some of the content of your posts, things like that, to find blogs that you might like.”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 1:07 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Dec 5, 2013 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tumblr's explicit post categorization yielded perfectly accurate content classification data
“If it's text, if it's a photo, whatever, so we can use this later on, and there's no predictions, there's no, oh, there's a photo in this thing, but we don't know if it's the main content of the post it's free, like, hundred percent accuracy prediction all the…”
Adam Laiacano Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 12:04 Adam Laiacano, Tumblr // Data Driven NYC 20 // Nov 2013 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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