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
office guy awe
You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.
cameras
I always carry my camera with me.
business entrepreneurship operations
We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
people mail found
I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
people use want
Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves
tools blogs mines
Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.
people age my-own
I never spent much time with people my own age.
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.
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.
simple add problem
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.
years want employed
I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
people entrepreneur use
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
thinking space creative
Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.
business entrepreneur vision
Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.