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How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Is It Humbling to Take Over Tumbler?

I'm excited actually because Apple is, you know, they have more cash in their bank than most countries. I am seeing them starting to shift into more of like a benevolent role and sort of realizing their size and their power. And so it also might just be generational. People who didn't come up as the underdogs. Most of the current executives were there when Apple was the underdog. You just see the culture over time. It's this stuff, right? It's that now in politician who is in charge of a large city or a small country, the users are doing whatever they want. All I can do is incentivize them to do good things and not bad things.

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