David Karp

Yahoo Will Pay Tumblr’s David Karp $81 Million Over Four Years

It’s good to be David Karp: Yahoo’s latest SEC filing reveals it’s paying the Tumblr founder $81 million in cash and stock if he sticks around for four years.

Tumblr’s David Karp Flatters Advertisers

What Tumblr’s Origin Story Teaches Us About Passion Products

“I wanted something where I could be free,” Tumblr founder and newly minted billionaire David Karp says. He found it in what one former colleague calls a “one-person product”–and then Yahoo came calling.

Tumblr: A One-Person Product, Says David Karp’s Former Colleague Marco Arment

Social Media Reacts To Yahoo’s Deal With Tumblr

Yahoo gets the cool, David Karp gets a substantial amount of cash, Tumblr gets Yahoo’s ad network, and users get grumpy.

Yahoo Now Linked With Tumblr Deal

David Karp’s Challenge To “Find The Formula” For Tumblr

The 26-year-old founder of the blogging giant–now reportedly being acquired for $1.1 billion by Yahoo–couldn’t figure out how to sustain its experimental journalism project. Here’s Karp on Tumblr’s future from our recent Innovation Uncensored conference.

Tumblr Breaks Up Its Storyboard Editorial Team

Tumblr Adds 17+ Rating To Its iOS App

Days after Twitter’s video-sharing site Vine was rapped for rolling out the rude stuff, another microblog is playing safe.

What Tumblr’s David Karp Taught Branch Founder Josh Miller

This week, Branch, the online conversation platform, went live to the world. In order to scale successfully, cofounder Josh Miller turned to Tumblr’s David Karp for advice.

Tumblr’s Unique Blend Of Meme Pushes Into Top Ten U.S. Internet Sites

Page views to the blog site, home of Selleck Waterfall Sandwich and other bits of strangeness, have increased by 10% in a month.

What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day

Many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room at the start of every day. You should, too–here’s how.

Chris Mohney Storyboards Tumblr’s Chaos

What would you do if you were named the first-ever editor of one of the world’s fastest-growing media companies and put in charge of a publishing platform with about 44 million users? Chris Mohney on taking Tumblr beyond “F*&% Yeah” memes.

Tumblr Gets Ads, But Your Nic Cage Meme Site Remains Unscathed

Y Combinator, TechStars: Investor Mentorship and Leverage Outweigh Capital

Tumblr Is Turning a Billion Page Views Into Cash, but Not Through Ads