We heard from COO Ben MacAskill, CEO @d0n, and Head of Flickr Alex Seville.
Ben said that Verizon very nearly pulled the plug on Flickr before SmugMug saved it in 2018. Since then there have been many offers, but they refuse to even look at the numbers. They know wherever it would go in this tech climate, it wouldn’t last.
Ben also talked a lot about his personal interest in conservation and saving public lands, so wildlife and landscape photographers continue to have spaces to photograph.