David Karp - the creator of Tumblr

By arimikaya

  • Karp was born on 6th July 1986 in New York City.

  • From the age of 11 started learning HTML and it was not long before he was designing websites for small local businesses.

  • He studied at the Bronx Science for a year but dropped out after a year to begin homeschooling.

  • He did an internship at Frederator Studios as an animation producer where he was captivated by the computer engineers works.

  • Karp started working for John Maloney’s UrbanBaby, an online parenting forum.

  • While working for Urban Baby Karp moved to Japan for 5 months

  • Karp lost his job at UrbanBaby when it was sold to CNET.

  • He used the money that he got from his share of sale to establish his software consultancy firm named Davidville.

  • David Karp and his friend Marco Arment launched Tumblr in February 2007 which is a social networking and micro blogging website.

  • David Karp is one of the youngest entrepreneur with a personal wealth at 200 million and his company stretching to 800 million dollars.

  • David sells Tumblr to Yahoo for 1.1 billion dollars