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Karp was born on 6th July 1986 in New York City.
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From the age of 11 started learning HTML and it was not long before he was designing websites for small local businesses.
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He studied at the Bronx Science for a year but dropped out after a year to begin homeschooling.
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He did an internship at Frederator Studios as an animation producer where he was captivated by the computer engineers works.
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Karp started working for John Maloney’s UrbanBaby, an online parenting forum.
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While working for Urban Baby Karp moved to Japan for 5 months
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Karp lost his job at UrbanBaby when it was sold to CNET.
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He used the money that he got from his share of sale to establish his software consultancy firm named Davidville.
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David Karp and his friend Marco Arment launched Tumblr in February 2007 which is a social networking and micro blogging website.
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David Karp is one of the youngest entrepreneur with a personal wealth at 200 million and his company stretching to 800 million dollars.
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David sells Tumblr to Yahoo for 1.1 billion dollars