The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.

Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

I never spent much time with people my own age.