David Karp Quotes

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

  David Karp

  Business, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Space, Creative

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• Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

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  People, Use, Want

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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.

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  People, Entrepreneur, Use

  "David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream". Interview With Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Team, Mean, Vision

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

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  Business, Entrepreneurship, Building

  "So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?". Interview with Sammy Davis, www.mediabistro.com. October 15, 2015.

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

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  Business, Entrepreneurship, Operations

  "So What Do You Do, David Karp, Founder of Tumblr?". Interview with Sammy Davis, www.mediabistro.com. October 15, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Focus, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.

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  Team, Empowering, Missions

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• For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.

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  Simple, Add, Problem

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

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  Years, Want, Employed

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• I never spent much time with people my own age.

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  People, Age, My Own

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• 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.

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  Witty, People, Identity

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• I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Appointments

  "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.

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• The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

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  Business, Team, People

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

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  Tools, Mines, Blogs

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• For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.

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  Add, Problem, Bigs

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• I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Boards

  "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr". Interview with Liz Welch, www.inc.com. June 2011.

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

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  People, Mail, Found

  "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.

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• 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.

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  Depression, Emotional, Unhappy

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• I always carry my camera with me.

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  Cameras

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• Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

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  Book, Reading, Ipads

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• Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

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  Get Better, Faster, Resources

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• 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.

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  Office, Guy, Awe

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• 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.

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  Design, Projects, Buried

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