David Karp was born on July 6, 1986 in New York, New York, U.S. Karp grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He is the eldest of two sons. His mother, Barbara Ackerman, was a teacher and his father, Michael D. Karp, was a composer. He went to Calhoun School until the eighth grade. At the age of eleven he started learning HTML and began designing websites for small local businesses. When he was fourteen he studied at the Bronx Science for a year but dropped out a year later to begin homeschooling. As a teenager he spent most of his free time in his bedroom glued to his computer. Instead of his mother trying to pry him away from his computer and get his to go outside like most parents, his mother encouraged him and suggested that he dropped out …show more content…
The impact was massive getting seventy-five thousand users two weeks after its launch. Five years after its public launch, Tumblr, with headquarters in New York City, hosted more than seventy million blogs and employed around a hundred people. The site also did not have a comment feature to comment on others posts so this discouraged negativity and encouraged positivity. This created a positive environment for the website and contributed to the site’s popularity. In 2013 it was announced that Yahoo! was acquiring Tumblr for more than one billion dollars. Since 2013, Tumblr is host to more than eighty-seven million blogs. According to Quantcast, Tumblr has the 11th largest internet traffic, making Tumblr, a hugely successful program.
Karp was an extremely successful entrepreneur because he came up with an original idea for a blog site that was easy to use and gave the user extreme amounts of creative freedom allowing them to design their blog sites to their personal preferences. This website had an awesome creative design, a clear and concise pitch, a ‘cool’ popular name and a useful purpose. The site also made money by partnering with other companies to build effective Tumblr feeds for marketing. This site is still around today and has more than eighty-seven million