David Karp — Wikipedia

David Karp (born the July 6, 1986 In New York), is an American entrepreneur.

He is the founder and president and chief executive officer of the Tumblr microblogging platform.

Born in New York, Karp grew up in the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Her parents are Barbara Ackerman, a San Anselmo teacher, California, and Michael D. Karp, a film and television composer ^{[ first ]} . He has a younger brother named Kevin ^{[ 2 ]} . His parents separated when he was 17 years old ^{[ 3 ]} . Karp attended the Calhoun school from 3 years old at the eighth year, where his mother teaches science ^{[ 4 ]} . At 11, he started learning HTML language and was soon website designer for companies ^{[ 5 ]} . Karp continued to participate in Bronx Science for a year before abandoning at the age of 15, to start school at home ^{[ 6 ]} . At the time, Karp wanted to enter a university in New York or MIT, and do projects outside the school framework appeared to him as a means of impressing universities ^{[ 7 ]} . Karp has never returned to high school and does not have its baccalaureate ^{[ 8 ]} . Marco Arment, the first Tumblr employee, will later remember that Karp avoided talking about his age: “In the first days of Tumblr, David Karp did not speak to anyone his age, he hired me when he was 19 years old , and I worked for him for more than a year before learning the truth. When he dropped the news during an interview. He wanted to keep him for himself as long as he could because ‘He knew that as soon as it knows, each story about Tumblr would be just on the youth of David. He was right. After that, he gave hours of interview with great newspaper editors and magazines, trying everything Tell them about the product, and the article came out like an ugly little piece on his youth. It took Tumblr for (especially) to get out of this image in the press. ^{[ 9 ]} .

In 2007, he created the Tumblr microblogging platform, which over the years became a potential competitor to social networks, Facebook and Twitter. In may 2013 , Yahoo! Bought Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion, Karp remains CEO of the company.

In 2010, he was appointed by the American magazine Technology Review , as one of the greatest inventors under the age of 35 in the world ^{[ ten ] , [ 11 ]} .