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

lon intends to retain as many shareholders as is allowed by the law in a private company, as opposed to maximizing his ownership of Twitter. While he can technically afford to pay out shareholders, it’s about having a public platform that is broadly inclusive and maximally trusted. “It’s extremely important to the future of civilization, I don’t ca... See more

Zuckerberg: “We all hope that in the future the economy is one where everyone can pursue their interests and their creativity and can have jobs that are more exciting for them . . . Overall it's not like one model is going to work. It's not just like everyone is going to be able to make enough money off of an ads revenue share or something like tha... See more

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimate

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