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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. According to Forbes, Karp's net worth exceeds $200 million, and Tumblr has been valued at $800 million.

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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.

Entrepreneur, People, Rich, Use, World

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

Building, Business, Entrepreneurship, Money, Motivated

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.

Creative, Open, Place, Space, Thinking

Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.

Buried, Design, Designs, Productive, Project, Projects

I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

Build, Employed, Happy, Want, Years

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

Business, Create, Entrepreneur, Vision

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Appointments, Caustic, Creativity, Thinking

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

Assistant, Needs, People, Tell, Want

I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

Fill, Home, People, Stuff, Surprised

I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

Found, Leave, Mail, People, Trains

Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. . . . I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

Become, Depression, Emotional, Fixed, Unhappy

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.

Bringing, Mean, Talk, Team, Vision, Week

Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

Blogs, Make, Mines, Simply, Tool, Tools

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.

Care, Cost, Entrepreneur, Focus

I always carry my camera with me.

Camera, Cameras, Carry

We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

Business, Entrepreneurship, Keep, Lean, Operation, Operations

Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

Faster, Get Better, Gets, Resources

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.

Alto, Awe, Constantly, Guy, Office, Talented

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Age, My Own, People, Spent, Time

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

Become, Identity, Making, People, Witty