Author Archive for LeithartTS22

David Karp

David Karp is the founder of Tumblr, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. Karp was born in 1984, and he attended the University of Michigan where he majored in business. After graduation from college, Karp worked at a series of startups before joining Tumblr in 2007 as its CEO. Tumblr quickly gained in popularity, attracting millions of users from across the globe. In 2013, Karp stepped down as CEO of Tumblr and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Since leaving Tumblr, he has started a new company called Discovery Desk that helps artists manage and promote their careers. He has also released an autobiography called “It Sucked and Then I Sold It”, which details his experiences as an entrepreneur and his rise to fame. In this article, you will learn about David Karp’s childhood and education, his life and career at Tumblr, and his plans for after the sale to Yahoo. David figured out how he wanted to live early in his life—he wanted to be his own boss. By the time he was a teenager, he owned two small businesses that he ran with his brother. At the University of Michigan, David studied finance and business with the goal of one day starting his own company. After graduating, he worked for several start-ups before launching Tumblr. Tumblr quickly became the most popular blogging platform on the internet. Over the next several years, David grew the company into a global enterprise.

Matthew Mullenweg

Matthew Mullenwig, is the owner of WordPress and the creator of the popular WPLift plugin. Mullenwig is a keynote speaker and blogger who has spoken at conferences all over the world on topics such as WordPress marketing, community building, personal development, entrepreneurship, and more.
Wordpress was started back in 2003 when Mullenweg was 19 years old! Since then it has grown to be the most popular content management system on the planet with more than 50 million websites using WordPress worldwide.
WordPress is an open-source publishing platform with a focus on ease of use, extensibility, security, and speed. WordPress is used by millions of people around the world to create their website and it is one of the most widely used website creation tools on the Internet today.
The WordPress system allows users to create their websites without coding expertise or knowledge, which is a significant advantage for beginners as well as experienced web developers and designers.
In his presentation at WordCamp US ’18, Mullenweg spoke about the importance of community and giving back in the community in order to grow the WordPress brand as well as the open source community as a whole. In his talk, he gave some valuable advice on how to be successful in community and web development, and the importance of supporting and encouraging the growth of the community in general.

Vesta Mobile Solutions

Marcellus Alexander III, Brandon Davenport, and Elwood Green III created a text messaging provider. They noticed that they could use texting to make programming more interactive. Today, the Baltimore company is profitable and has clients that include Hearst Argyle Television, Comcast, and clothing retail chain Downtown Locker Room. This is just one way that people were able to see what was going on and how they could find a solution to a problem that needed fixing to make it easier on people. They have some big names and understand how to help those companies. The company is a mobile marketing agency which focuses on engaging audiences via text messaging, mobile websites, and mobile applications. They have figured out how to make business for the companies they work with and understand how that all works and use those things to make money as they can be considered the best in the field. People just need to look for small inconveniences and that can be your multi million dollar business. So when you find a problem that is small but can simplify something for others most people will buy it and you can make millions. So follow how they figured out a small problem and use that to your advantage.

Paul Mattison

Paul Mattison started his restaurant business in 2001 when he opened Mattison’s American Bistro and catering company in St. Petersburg. Over the next five years he expanded his restaurant chain rapidly across the United States. He saw how his restaurant chain could make him a big enterprise and he ran with it. Paul found how the world appreciated what he created and he showed the world that he could make a business out of it. His newest enterprise is Mattison Culinary Outfitters and has expressed interest into making that business into a culinary supermarket. Paul’s new business showed him that he found a niche that was not very interesting to a lot of people so they did not create the business to do exactly what he did. As Paul found more and more things that needed helped in this small community he figured out ways to make them built into his businesses. Paul figured that as long as he can figure out what the need is he can basically know what is wanted he can make the money from having the business with everything for a businesses culinary needs. Paul was very smart with what he chose to do with the information he had found.

Joseph Hamilton

Joseph started “Charlie and Checkers” to provide live unique entertainment to people of all ages. Joseph started the business with his brother and they now preform comedy, magic, and music. Joseph and his brother love people and just like to share their love of preforming for others. They care for others and have made a business out of their passion of preforming. The brothers have preformed for the elderly to give back to the community. Joseph and his brother have been giving back to the elders in our community. The two brothers care for the elders and just show their love for people in this way. In 2015 Joseph was a Senior in high school. They love people and show their love through everything they do. The world needs more people like these brothers who care about how the world should show love to our elders. So lets start to do this through the way we live and show the world how to be a loving Christian. The people who care like them are the people who will make the world a better place and be able to create a better world. So lets start to take influence from them and do this.

Asya Gonzalez

Asya is a young entrepreneur who shows people how to have fun with the style of 1940’s clothing. She started the business when she was 14 years old and a portion of all proceeds go to “She is worth it.” Which is an organization that is dedicated to preventative awareness and education of child sex trafficking. In 2015 she was a Senior in high school while running this business. Asya shows how you can take old fashion and make it appealing to todays world. She has taken something a lot of people would call old and would not consider wearing but with her changes people enjoy it more and are willing to wear this type of outfits. Asya has made this to help people with who she donates some profits to. She has made her business help people and make clothes more fun for people who like that style of clothing. She understands old things can still be used to make people happy even though they are new things that look old. A high schooler figuring out this and creating a business out of this is very smart on her part as she found a very limited niche and opened it up to the world so everyone can enjoy something from the past.