David Karp is an entrepreneur and web developer, he’s best known for creating the blogging site Tumblr. He grew up in Manhattan and is the oldest of two children. His parents were a teacher and a composer. He showed interest in technology and programming from an early age. At 15 he left the Bronx High School of Science. He began homeschooling with his mother in order to pursue an internship with an animation company. Through his internship, he secured a position doing web development for UrbanBaby. The site used message boards to allow parents to ask each other questions about raising children. Karp did most of his work remotely and as a result was able to move to Japan at age 17 to immerse himself in the culture and technology. When he came back to New York he became chief technology officer of UrbanBaby. When the company was sold, he built up capital and invested in his own consultancy, Davidville. During some downtime with Davidville, Karp and his programmer, Marco Arment, worked on building the Tumblr site. The site was launched as a private beta in 2006 and went public in 2007. Five years after its debut, Tumblr employed over 100 people and had over 70 million blog posts. In 2013, Yahoo purchased Tumblr for $1 billion. Although Tumblr would later be devalued and made a subsidiary of a different company, Karp was able to resign with a net worth of over 200 million dollars. Karp is a great example of an entrepreneur who immersed himself in culture and then found a problem, parents wanting to find answers, and offered a way to help.
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This is so inspiring. The thought of dropping highschool to start homeschooling for an internship at the age of 15 is crazy. And then from that internship having the skill necessary to secure a job. David Karp’s age was continuously trying to catch up to his knowledge. Finally, he used all the knowledge he built up from these jobs and created his own company. He is a genuis.