David Karp
David Karp
David Karp is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. According to Forbes, Karp's net worth exceeds $200 million, and Tumblr has been valued at $800 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 July 1986
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
David Karp quotes about
web
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
business entrepreneur vision
Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
focus cost maintenance
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.
team mean vision
The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.
tools blogs mines
Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.
witty people identity
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
business entrepreneurship operations
We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
team effort digital-media
We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.
home people stuff
I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.
business team people
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
business entrepreneurship building
We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.