David Karp

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Karp
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Jul 6, 1986(1986-07-06)
Age	38
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Cancer

David Karp Biography

David Karp is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on July 6, 1986 in New York, United States. The founder of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. He was cited as a result of MIT among the top 35 pioneers of the world who are younger than 35.

The duo of He and Evan Spiegel are both known for their success as young tech entrepreneurs. are each renowned for their successes as tech-savvy young entrepreneurs.

Karp left UrbanBaby after it was sold to CNET in 2006. Using money from the sale of his shares, Karp started his own software consultancy company, Davidville, functioning as a mix of client work and production of Karp’s own products and services. Marco Arment joined the company as an engineer after replying to Karp’s Craigslist ad. Karp had been interested in microblogging for some time and was waiting for one of the established blogging platforms to introduce their own microblogging platform. After a year of waiting, Karp and Arment began working on their own microblogging platform during a two-week gap between contracts in 2006. Tumblr was launched in February 2007 and within two weeks, the service had gained 75,000 users.

In October 2007, Karp shut down his consultancy business as his work with Tumblr was interfering with his client work. Davidville was renamed Tumblr, Inc. and 25 percent of the company was sold to a small group of investors.

He was a lover of Rachel Eakley from 2009 to in 2014. He is a brother to Kevin as well as a mother named Michael D. Karp and Barbara Ackerman.

David Karp Net Worth

David Karp is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Karp 's net worth $200 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He began learning HTML at the age of 11 and, by 14, he had started working as a computer engineer in the animation studio.

The Tumblr platform gained a lot of traction across the Internet shortly after its introduction in 2007.

David Karp (born July 6, 1986) is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

David Karp height 6 ft 1 in David weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is David Karp Dating?

According to our records, David Karp married to Rachel Eakley. As of December 1, 2023, David Karp’s is not dating anyone.

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—Karp in an interview with Fast Company about his
first day of work dedicated solely to Tumblr

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Karp celebrates birthday on July 6 of every year.

Karp began his career, without having received a high school diploma, as an intern under Fred Seibert at the animation company Frederator Studios, where he built the studio’s first blogging platform and conceived, wrote, and edited their first internet video network, Channel Frederator. Karp went on to work for online parenting forum UrbanBaby until it was sold to CNET in 2006. Karp then started his own software consulting company, Davidville, where he worked with computer engineer Marco Arment on projects for clients. During a gap between contracts in 2006, the two began work on a microblogging website, which was launched as Tumblr in February 2007. As of November 1, 2017, Tumblr hosts over 375.4 million blogs. In August 2009, Karp was named Best Young Tech Entrepreneur 2009 by BusinessWeek and in 2010, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

What is company name of David Karp?

David Karp
Known for| Founder and CEO of Tumblr
Website| www.davidslog.com

Who bought Tumblr?

In August 2019, Tumblr was acquired again, this time by WordPress.com owner Automattic for a paltry $3 million.

Who is the CEO of Tumblr?

Screenshot The Tumblr login/sign up page; a different background image is displayed each time the page is loaded.
Founder(s)| David Karp
Key people| Matt Mullenweg (CEO)
Industry| Microblogging, social networking service
Employees| 411 (as of June 2017)

Who is the founder of Tumblr?

David Karp

What's Tumblr used for?

Definition: Tumblr is a blogging and social media tool that allows users to publish a “tumblelog”, or short blog posts. Tumblr’s major differentiator is the free-form nature of the site and the ability of users to heavily customize their own pages.