Today I want to tell the intriguing story of the success of one of the youngest billionaires in the world in the name of David Karp,
who made his fortune thanks to an impressive creation of one of the most famous in the world bloggovyh platform Tumblr.
David Karp was born and grew up in the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York in the family of Barbara Ackerman and Michael Karp.
From the third to the eighth grade in school The Calhoun School, where his mother taught, and then briefly attended school Bronx Science, whereupon studied at home.
At age 14 he took a course of training in teleprodyussera and animator Frank Seibert, after which he continued to work as a consultant for the software for the U.S. Internet portal UrbanBaby, aimed at an audience in the face of new parents.
Carp left UrbanBaby in 2006 and that same year began work on the first concept Tumblr, which was launched in January 2007.
Internet giant Yahoo suddenly turned into a billionaire's 26-year-old American David Karp, who coined the site Tumblr.
Despite the fact that the net profit of the project last year was only $ 13 million, Yahoo's board of directors considered the $ 1 billion cost of a well-deserved .
By the way, David was against the sale.
Karp invented Tumblr in 2007, working in the garage of his mother. To date, this popular service blogs 100,000,000 users. Every day they put 90 million messages. A Carp became another new billionaire of those guys, a little over 20, who fabulously enriched themselves on the internet.
So far, David lives with his girlfriend Rachel in a modest apartment in Manhattan. But that's nothing - the owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, whose wealth is measured by several billions of dollars, even bought a house on a mortgage. He explained this reluctance to "take money out of the business." Such are the strange they are young billionaires.
It is difficult to say that the success of David Karp, founder of 21 years one of the major blogging platforms in the world, was unexpected. Young David always had a wit and cleverness. So, once they reach adulthood, he moved to Tokyo to improve their professional skills. There, he decided to become a businessman, and the only obstacle, according to Karp, was his voice. To look older, he had to basit into the phone and hope that a personal meeting with prospective partners can be avoided. Back in the U.S., Karp began working for a company Viacom, in a package of brands which at that time were MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks. This success came a year later, when David Karp founded platform Tumblr, supports photo and video content. Already in the first two weeks of diaries brought 75,000 people. Now, at 25, is the head of Carp, valued at A $ 800 million on their own magazines Tumblr is Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and GQ.
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