We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible..

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building..

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 o….

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create..

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..

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..

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use..

Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from..

I never spent much time with people my own age..

For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem..

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

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have ….

I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone..

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad..

Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are bes….

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 – certainl….

I always carry my camera with me..

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to peop….

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

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted..