David Karp, inventor of Tumblr, discovered his passion for entrepreneurship at a young age.  He was only 14 when he got his first internship with an animation producer.  Karp was fascinated with the whole industry and started digging into it further.  He started learning more and more programming languages and eventually became very skilled in programming and coding.  This drive would soon take him far and give him the platform that he needed to excel.

In 2007, at the young age of 20, Karp launched the opening of the successful platform called Tumblr.  Tumblr was an idea that Karp came up with.  It is a mix of twitter, Youtube and WordPress.  It gives each user the ability to have their own blog where they can post blogs, pictures and video.  After the first 24 hours of the launch, Tumblr had 75,000 users.  And it soon grew to be a huge and time consuming platform.   His intention with Tumblr was to give the consulting business he owned the attention that he needed for it.  He soon realized that he was incapable of balancing both of these businesses, and shut down his consulting business to run with Tumblr full time.

Tumblr continued to grow and had proved itself as an extremely successful startup.  As of December 1, 2016, Tumblr hosts over 324.7 million blogs.  Although it hasn’t come close to reaching the 100 billion value of Zuckerberg’s Facebook , Tumblr’s 800 million dollar value is nothing to pass up.  Karp was included in Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2013.  He used his entrepreneurial mind to design his company in such a way that it was innovative in an age of blogging and networking.  Where others looked at the revolutions of blogging and social networking and saw new tools for communication, Karp saw possibilities for making them easier and more intuitive. Tumblr lowered the bar to creating a beautiful, dynamic website and raised the payoff in the form of positive social reinforcement.