. >> one of your investors , fred wilson, recently talked about companies -- at some point, they needo turn into a real business. they need to focus on monetization and profits. he said, tumblr had to be sold even though they had potential. tumblr's annual burn rate was almost 50% of the entire fund. three exclamation points. how do you respond to that? >> we were making money. it is true we had a real burn rate. we would have been able to -- the options in front of us were raised what you would call a growth round, get somebody to cut you a big check. or go and find and acquire, take on the burn rate. until you cross over to profitability. >> what about user growth? give me some numbers in terms of where tumblr is today. how many blogs, how many countries? >> at the time of the acquisition, we were 100 million blogs. we crossed over 200 million blogs. we reach an audience now up almost 450 million people all over the world. >> you had 47.3 million monthly unique users in august. in may, it was 39 million. it looks like it has dipped. how do we make sense of that? >> we use them for o

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