Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Geoff Smith http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 StumbleUpon Spins Off Independently From eBay http://pulse2.com/2009/04/13/stumbleupon-spins-off-independently-from-ebay/ http://pulse2.com/2009/04/13/stumbleupon-spins-off-independently-from-ebay/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:13:13 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=13929 Continue reading →]]>
About two years ago, eBay bought out StumbleUpon for $75 million. But today StumbleUpon announced that they are spinning off as an independent company again. The company is now backed by Geoff Smith and several other investors.

Last month StumbleUpon hit 7 million users.

StumbleUpon believes that this will help the company stay more focused on their goal — “helping people discover interesting web content. Our goal is to make StumbleUpon the web’s largest recommendation engine and we think this is the best way to get us there,” stated StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp.

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