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Seventeen year old German senior, Chris Neukirchen invents the tumblelog system, a great infkunece of Tumblr CEO David Karp. The system is designed for super short bloggng ( a simple paragraph)
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Karp sends a letter to his other influences, Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson, creators of anothe tumblelog blog system called “Projectionist”. Karp's letter indicates that he was publishing the first “Tumblr” site inspired by “Projectionist”.
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Tumblr is officially launched on the company wordpress blog. “first blogging platform to move away from the editorial magazine-column format, and make blogging accessible to everyone” 29-year old David Karp (CEO)
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A major mlestone
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During the span of 30 days
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Tumblr expands it's user base by 900%
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This which valued Tumblr at $800 million
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President Obama launches his 2012 re-election campaign on Tumblr which encouraged user submissions as a part of a "huge collaborative storytelling effort".
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Yahoo formally announces its acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1bn. The deal, which was expected to complete in the second half of this year, is almost all cash. Karp, will remain Tumblr's chief executive, and will be tied into the company for at least four years for his payment of about $220m to vest.
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David Karp was 19 when he founded Tumblr . Native of New York, he leanred to code at age 11, was home-schooled from 15, and lived in Japan alone for a year when he was just 18 years old.
