"I had a brief chat with Karp last night about the company, which counts only 10 full-time employees today. Karp told me Tumblr is still not all too worried about its ability to generate revenue with the service, keeping its options open and trying to come up with innovative ways of making money rather than merely adding standard premium features or advertising. What they are experimenting with, however, are imminent paid features that would basically give Tumblr users a way to promote their content in ‘new ways’. Sounds rather vague, so we’ll just have to wait and see what they come up with. Also on the roadmap: localization. The Tumblr team is currently considering translating the service and offering customer support in more languages besides English. Karp said Tumblr, which raised about $5.25 million in venture capital to date, has about two years of runway left before running out of cash." - × × ×