Q&A with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on closing the Tumblr deal, profitability, content moderation, Apple’s rules, Twitter, lessons for Elon Musk, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on closing the Tumblr deal, profitability, content moderation, Apple’s rules, Twitter, lessons for Elon Musk, and more  —  What can Elon learn from Tumblr?  —  We have to talk about Twitter, right?  Elon Musk bought it.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
“Welcome to hell, Elon:” Musk won’t be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without compromises and realizing that content moderation is the main product  —  You break it, you buy it. … Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself …

Koh Gui Qing / Reuters:
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF’s parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel”  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the brand and its history, running a private company, building software, Bluetooth, competing with Apple and Google, and more  —  Has sound quality taken a back seat to convenience?  —  Bose is one of the most recognizable audio brands in the world …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on running the company, growing a SaaS business, content moderation, community satisfaction, Web3, and more  —  Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers.  CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more  —  We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma …