I just added more context about Stewart as an entrepreneur. It is also important to highlight that Flickr was acquired in 2005 and the acquisition numbers were a fraction of what you see nowadays. Finally, 2005 was just a few years after Internet startups started again after the dot com crash. Google Maps was launched this year and a little bit before Gmail.

Better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.

Maybe one of Yahoo's few W's

Well, I still don't know if it's profitable for them but at least it has its niche of paying users

Yahoo (Verizon) did eventually sell Flickr to SmugMug in 2018 for an undisclosed sum.